The situation seems to be this: * Sigbjorn is actively maintaining hslibs/win32 for Galois reasons, and is reluctant to transfer to libraries/win32 because it's untested (I'm assuming that the Green-Card dependency is soluble by putting the GC output in the CVS tree). Fair enough. * Alastair believes that lilbraries/win32 should work, but cannot maintain it. Fair enough. * Everyone else would far rather not to have to choose * The sooner we can dump hslibs/ the better I'm not sure how to make progress here. Is anyone else interested or willing to take ownership of libraries/win32? (Graham? Krasimir?) This isn't a GHC specific thing -- I believe/hope the same libraries should work equally well for Hugs. Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: cvs-all-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:cvs-all-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Sigbjorn Finne | Sent: 29 January 2004 02:37 | To: Simon Peyton-Jones | Cc: cvs-ghc@haskell.org; Graham Klyne | Subject: Re: GHC 'hslibs/win32/Win32Spawn.hs' syntax error? | | hslibs/win32 is being kept compilable & working as our partial Win32 | API binding. | | I've never tried using libraries/Win32; its re-introduction of a dependency | on GreenCard + its untested nature is why I've been reluctant to go near it. | | --sigbjorn | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Simon Peyton-Jones" <simonpj@microsoft.com> | To: "Sven Panne" <Sven.Panne@aedion.de>; "Sigbjorn Finne" <sof@galois.com> | Cc: "Graham Klyne" <gk@ninebynine.org>; <cvs-ghc@haskell.org> | Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 02:50 | Subject: RE: GHC 'hslibs/win32/Win32Spawn.hs' syntax error? | | | > Sigbjorn, Sven, Alastair | > | > What *is* our story for hslibs/Win32? | > | > We're trying to switch over to libraries/. | > * Is libraries/Win32 a complete replacement for hslibs/Win32? | > * Is it "alive"? (ie. does it work? does anyone use it) | > | > Sorry for my ignorance. It'd be nice to say "don't use hslibs, just use | > libraries".