ganesh.sittampalam:
Don Stewart wrote:
GHC doesn't bundle with cabal-install on any system.
What is needed is not for the GHC team to be doing Windows platform packages, but for the Windows Haskell devs to build their own system, as happens on all the Unices.
Take GHC's release, wrap it up with native installers, throw in useful libraries and executables like cabal. Done.
It's not the GHC compiler team's job to build distro-specific bundles.
So, windows@haskell.org anyone? Get the wiki going, get the set of tasks created.
Isn't the Haskell Platform going to do all this? Shouldn't interested people just help out there?
The platform is a set of blessed libraries and tools. The distros will still need to package that. To do that for Windows, we're still going to need a windows packaging team, along side Debian, Arch, Gentoo, Mac etc. -- Don