[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: HSH 1.2.0

John Goerzen wrote:

On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 05:06:16PM +0000, Paul Moore wrote:

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On 03/03/07, John Goerzen wrote:

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I'm pleased to announce HSH 1.2.0. Since version 1.0.0 was announced a few days ago, there have been some improvements: I've had a little look, and it looks nice. However, as a mainly Windows user, I'd be interested to know - does it work on Windows (alternatively, is portability to Windows a goal)? It might be worth mentioning up front, if it's Unix-only.

Presently, it is Unix-only, though it likely would run fine under Cygwin. I am not yet sure if the new System.Process is powerful enough for this. Upon initial examination, I believe that it is not because it lacks support for pipes.

I don't know how Windows shells deal with piping, or even if they can. All I know is that DOS used to simulate it with temporary files, lacking any real multitasking.

Windows has proper pipes these days, and System.Process.runInteractiveProcess creates pipes for you. Cheers, Simon