2008/9/13 Andrew Coppin
Just FYI, I have now implemented and tested this feature. The new version, 0.5.0, is available on Hackage.
For both platforms?
Of course! My package promises to work cross-platform, after all.
Out of interest, how do you get the correct package built on each platform?
If you mean "how do I compile the ANSI emulator on Windows but the actual ANSI stuff on Unix", most of the magic is in the .cabal file: http://github.com/batterseapower/ansi-terminal/tree/master/ansi-terminal.cab.... I simply turn on the C-preprocessor (CPP) and then supply -DWINDOWS on Windows and -DUNIX on anything else. The actual use of CPP in my source is then confined to a single module (http://github.com/batterseapower/ansi-terminal/tree/master/System/Console/AN...) which either imports System.Console.ANSI.Windows or System.Console.ANSI.Unix depending on which of those two have been defined. Nothing to it, really. However, this is the stuff that is making the Hackage documentation generation choke currently because until recently Cabal forgot to supply the CPP flags to a Haddock 2 (but not Haddock 0.x) run. All the best, Max