I was not aware of that! Very cool.

Trystan Spangler

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henning Thielemann" <lemming@henning-thielemann.de>
To: "trystan s" <trystan.s@comcast.net>
Cc: "Felipe Almeida Lessa" <felipe.lessa@gmail.com>, haskell-cafe@haskell.org
Sent: Monday, March 7, 2011 9:56:16 AM
Subject: Re: silently-0.0.1 (prevent IO actions from writing to stdout)


On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, trystan.s@comcast.net wrote:

> * I could see what OS it is and try those options and use a temp file only if it's an
> unexpected os. Unfortunately System.Info.os reports windows (and some other os's) as
> "mingw32", I think it's because of how GHC was compiled. Who knows what the real os is
> or what each os will be reported as in the future or how they appear to other compilers
> and runtimes.

You could add a check to Cabal and then choose a platform-dependent module
using

   If os(windows)
     Hs-Source-Dirs: windows/src
   Else
     Hs-Source-Dirs: unix/src