On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 09:59:24PM +0000, Andrew Coppin wrote:
I don't think this state of affairs is unique in the Haskell world. Some people use Linux, Mac, or Windows as their main development box, but pretty much everybody tries to support all platforms.
Incidentally, Andrew Coppin (CCd on this thread already) is one of those that has sent me patches.
OK, now I'm puzzled. I don't remember that! :-}
OK, I went back and looked at my Git logs and you're right. Wrong Andrew. Sorry.
I recall _trying_ to get a few of the database packages to build (I cannot remember which one(s) now - there's so many). In fact, IIRC, I even got the "base" package to build, but the driver for my database wouldn't build. (I forget why exactly.) In my experience, almost *everything* on Hackage consistently fails to build on Windows, so I think by this point I'd more or less given up even trying to make things build for me. In short, I didn't follow this one very far... At least, that's how I remember it. I guess this is where somebody digs up some thread on cafe from 3 years ago or something and proves me wrong. :-}
I would welcome bug reports and, even better, patches for this stuff. But I was pretty sure that HDBC and HDBC-ODBC in particular are working on Windows. -- John