Hello Ben, I have a daring (and probably) proposal. On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 02:38:40PM +0200, Ben Franksen wrote:
Like ghc itself, we (the Darcs team) also have trouble providing adequate support for Windows. I personally haven't (seriously) used Windows for decades. So I thought we could at least do some automated building and testing for Windows on some CI system, perhaps even automatically build Windows binaries.
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»? -F [1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/gscholar-rss