5 Jul
2007
5 Jul
'07
12:52 p.m.
On 05/07/07, Dave Bayer
How's this, only one line is specific to your problem: [...]
md5 <- doShell "md5 -q md5.hs"
Doesn't work on my (Windows) PC, where I have no md5 command available. While I agree in theory with the idea of combining focused tools, it's a potential portability nightmare, particularly on Windows where decent command line tools are almost non-existent on a clean install. You're changing the problem from finding a Haskell library (which only needs to be installed on the development machine at compile time) to finding a 3rd party utility, which has to be installed at runtime on any machine using the compiled Haskell program. Not a good trade-off. And I'm not going to get into Windows/Linux arguments... :-) Paul.