On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 17:39 +0100, Paul Moore wrote:
I see you've already responded, and we're in broad agreement. So I won't labour the point. It's an infrastructure issue rather than a technical one, and it *will* improve. What will be interesting is how much the generally lousy Windows experience can be improved -
We have this slightly odd problem where half our user base use Windows (according to the GHC user survey) but almost every active developer uses Linux or OSX (or a few other BSD/Unix OSs). So we could enormously improve the Windows user experience (and a few heroes work hard on doing just that) but basically there just aren't enough developers who use windows to give it a satisfactory level of support. This is of course a slightly circular problem, since using/developing Haskell on Windows is a pain, developers avoids it and so there are not enough developers irritated by how difficult it is to motivate developers to fix it! Duncan