Thomas van Noort wrote:
As you already noticed, there is no Windows binary available for the Emerald release. However, there is one for the Coral release, available from:
http://www.generic-haskell.org
Although this is an old release of Generic Haskell, this release already supports generic types, which is what you need for your project probably. In the user's guide, there is a small example available which defines a generic type to represent tries.
Thanks, but this won't register itself as a package with current ghc, and even I fixed that problem I guess it probably still wouldn't work :-( It's entirely up to you folks of course. I don't know if anyone at GHHQ cares enought to do anything about the buildability problem. But if not I'm afraid I can't see this being used or accepted as part of standard Haskell infrastructure. It'll just be something people look at, admire the coolness, maybe even tinker with for a while, but never really use for anything serious. Meanwhile I think the GSoC project I mentioned will have to make other arrangements :-) To be honest though, I'm not sure we'd use it anyway as I understand it generates essentially pure H98 and there are ghc extensions we'd probably want to use for performance reasons (like unboxed Ints and unboxed tuples). Regards -- Adrian Hey