Simon, Sigbjorn, we have updated the wiki page http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Installers and would welcome your feedback. (only cc-ed to ghc-users for now, as ghc's is the next installer to be expected; once ghc is on board, we can ask others) Initially, we were tempted to try and specify some ideal installation world, but that turned out to be complicated and unlikely to be something all Haskellers could agree on. So we chose to tackle the issue from the other side instead, trying to pin down the issues on which different installers must not get in each other's way. An oversimplified micro-summary is "hands off, unless the user wants it" - installers should agree on a common file type, lest they disable each other inadvertedly, and they should permit users to bypass file name extension association, file type action registration (right-click menu), and setting of the default action (double-click). That should hopefully enable initial conformance with minimal changes, as the next release is imminent (though I'm led to believe that nothing is straightforward about creating Windows installers;-). Once the various installers no longer get in each other's way, things can grow from there, later. Over to you, Claus and Neil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Peyton-Jones" To: "Claus Reinke" ; "Neil Mitchell" Cc: "Sigbjorn Finne" Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 11:38 AM Subject: RE: FW: [GHC] #916: windows installer should play nice with otherHaskell tools Claus, Neil This is all v helpful. Can you let Sigbjorn (and me) know when you have converged to a common mind, so that he can think about how to implement it? No point in doing work until there is an agreed spec! Thanks Simon