On Sun, 2015-03-22 at 09:17 +0000, Neil Mitchell wrote:
On Windows, the reason I used to use the Platform was that it came with an installed network library, and installing the network library on Windows is a real pain (and often fails). Unfortunately it was incredibly brittle, a single attempt at upgrading network from some newer package usually trashed my Haskell install and required a wipe and restart.
Nowadays I use https://github.com/fpco/minghc which can actually install network, and I've had zero problems.
Can we just include this fix into the platform installers? As Mark says, the Platform has decent automated build & test infrastructure so it shouldn't be that hard. As I understand it the network problem is just to do with how much of mingwin we include and not really related to "min" vs "max" installers. Duncan