Lennart Augustsson wrote:
IMHO, no one in the right mind uses Windows voluntarily. :) I'm forced to use it at work, and it's a pain. But since many are forced to use Windows it would be nice if ghc was as well supported on Windows and Unix.
What he said. ;-) I will say this: GHC itself (and the libraries that come with it) seem to work very well on Windows already. Download installer, double-click, press [Next] a few times, congratulations, you have a fully functional (get it?!) Haskell development box. Not much to improve there. (Well... GHC only adds itself to the current user's PATH, not system-wide. A switch for this would be nice...) It's just installing anything from Hackage which turns out to be really difficult. I understand Windows developers are a tad rare round here, so maybe that's understandable. I'd certainly be interested in hearing about anything practical that I can do to improve things on the Windows side...