Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Hackage on Linux

On 30 Aug 2010, at 00:55, Stephen Tetley wrote:

On 29 August 2010 13:24, Hamish Mackenzie wrote:

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Use TakeOffGW (http://sourceforge.net/projects/takeoffgw/) to install :

Hi Hamish

Does TakeOffGW work well in practice? The intentions behind it are admirable but at the moment it seems rather new.

They have been able to leverage a lot of the windows cross compilation work done in SUSE. TakeoffGW packages are built on SUSE and it uses the cygwin installer to download and install them. Cygwin installer is fairly mature (has a number of quirks but it works). So far I have only used it to build Leksah, but it has a lot of packages available. Hamish