Haskell Support on Windows

I've been getting the impression that a lot of the stickier GHC bugs are Windows specific, while very few GHC hackers actually use Windows, other than to ensure that GHC works on it. Windows is already somewhat of a second-class citizen in Hackage, where platform-sensitive packages tend to only work out-of-the box on Linux. Perhaps it should be "demoted" to second-tier GHC support as well, at least to the extent that Windows bugs won't hold up a release? (I write this as a Windows user who also manages some Linux servers. I agree that Windows support is important, but it seems to be unreasonably "taking" far more than it "gives".) -- View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Haskell-Support-on-Windows-tp5746711.ht... Sent from the Haskell - Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

| I've been getting the impression that a lot of the stickier GHC bugs are | Windows specific, while very few GHC hackers actually use Windows, other | than to ensure that GHC works on it. ... | Perhaps it should be "demoted" to second-tier GHC support as well, at | least to the extent that Windows bugs won't hold up a release? That's true. But many, many people *use* GHC on Windows. It would be terribly sad to abandon them. What we need is more developers to volunteer to help look after the Windows version of GHC. One or two are doing so, but we need more. Please! Simon
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