Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: building "encoding" on Windows?

Quoting John Lato :

Packages on Hackage are *source distributions*, so users need a development environment in order to make use of them. Windows doesn't have a built-in development environment, therefore I don't see any reason why developers shouldn't choose the one most convenient to them.

The Haskell Platform is supposed to be a development environment... ~d