-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Yesterday I "casually discovered" the existance of the Haskell language, became intrigued by it, erad the "Genet introduction", and gone to the NHC98 homepage to being "experimenting"... there I found a pre-compiled Cygwin version, that suggested to use Cygwin as downloadable with setup.exe (thanks god you didn't decide to distribute it "binary" with cygwin1.dll, as many do: having multiple cygwin1.dll in the system is indeed a problem). Now I wonder why don't you create an "official" Cygwni package installable directly with setup.exe? Whouldn't it be handy? Do you lack the "specific know-how" (in that case I could help), the will to manage yet another format or something else? Anyway I'm (locally) trying to build a cygwin package compatible with Cygwin's specs, so that it could be included in the distribution... then it's up to you if you want to mantain it or if you prefer someone else to do it (in that case I could volunteer, but I still must decide ^^). Lapo - -- Lapo Luchini lapo@lapo.it (PGP & X.509 keys available) http://www.lapo.it (ICQ UIN: 529796) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkHyQL8ACgkQaJiCLMjyUvsCdwCcC+aW+g2hQU6MfpEv+Rv+wvyN zlMAoJQTXeeUuxwkh5GAuR3WhOtWXwQD =7kuM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Lapo Luchini
Now I wonder why don't you create an "official" Cygwin package installable directly with setup.exe? Whouldn't it be handy? Do you lack the "specific know-how" (in that case I could help), the will to manage yet another format or something else?
Both of those reasons. There are so many different OS and packaging system variations (Cygwin, Mingw32, Debian, RPM, BSDports, etc), that we must rely on users of those systems to contribute the packaging information for nhc98.
Anyway I'm (locally) trying to build a cygwin package compatible with Cygwin's specs, so that it could be included in the distribution... then it's up to you if you want to mantain it or if you prefer someone else to do it.
Thank you for the offer. If you create such a package for Cygwin, please do feed back any necessary changes to us, to incorporate into the CVS repository. We would prefer it if a regular user of Cygwin can maintain the Cygwin-specific package. If no-one is able to do that, then at least having compatibility with the Cygwin specs is a good step. Regards, Malcolm
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