Seems to me that a less pessimistic solution would be to set up a windows buildbot. Niklas ----- Ursprungligt meddelande ----- Från: "harry" <voldermort@hotmail.com> Skickat: 2014-03-31 14:27 Till: "glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org" <glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org> Ämne: 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. _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Niklas Larsson <metaniklas@gmail.com>wrote:
Seems to me that a less pessimistic solution would be to set up a windows buildbot.
+1 I believe there's at least one investment bank that uses Haskell on Windows. Perhaps they could set one up. ;)
Niklas Larsson wrote
Seems to me that a less pessimistic solution would be to set up a windows buildbot.
We need a meatbot who can fix Windows issues in GHC. What's the current state with buildbots? Wondering around the wiki led me to http://darcs.haskell.org/ghcBuilder/builders/, which suggests that nothing's happened since August, and there are a lot of broken bots. -- View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/SV-Haskell-Support-on-Windows-tp5746713... Sent from the Haskell - Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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