[Haskell-cafe] Re: binding to C libraries on Windoww

I guess there's a difference in culture here.

On Unix, it is usual to distribute programs as source, and build from source.

I see more than a cultural issue here. Suppose you write bindings to somelib-1.0.2, and release it with somelib-1.0.2. Then, somelib-1.0.3 is released to solve a serious security issue with 1.0.2. Linux or unix distributions will update their repositories, but users of your bindings will blindly keep using 1.0.2. Best, Maurício