Hi Franceso Am 27.04.20 um 14:57 schrieb Francesco Ariis:
Recently I was contacted by a user of a small script of mine [1]. He downloaded the (x86_64) binary and used it on Windows (10?) via «Windows Subsystem of Linux».
$ uname -a Linux DESKTOP-AHPUUO5 4.4.0-18362-Microsoft #476-Microsoft Fri Nov 01 16:53:00 PST 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I found this fantastic as I loathe dealing with Wine of Virtual Machines to provide Win users with a binary.
I have not touched Windows since XP, but how feasible is it to call it a day and tell Win users: «From now on, Darcs will be available on Windows via WSL»?
It is tempting. But it feels a bit like defeat. Large parts of the Haskell ecosystem work perfectly fine on Windows; a lot of effort has been spent to make standard IO actions work there. I think it would be a waste not to use that infrastructure and build native Windows binaries. Still, thanks for mentioning the possibility. We may come back to it as a last resort. Cheers Ben