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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">Seems to me that a less pessimistic solution would be to set up a windows buildbot. <BR><BR>Niklas</DIV></DIV>
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<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Från: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><A href="mailto:voldermort@hotmail.com">harry</A></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Skickat: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">2014-03-31 14:27</SPAN><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Till: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><A href="mailto:glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org">glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org</A></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Ämne: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">Haskell Support on Windows</SPAN><BR><BR></DIV>I've been getting the impression that a lot of the stickier GHC bugs are<BR>Windows specific, while very few GHC hackers actually use Windows, other<BR>than to ensure that GHC works on it.<BR><BR>Windows is already somewhat of a second-class citizen in Hackage, where<BR>platform-sensitive packages tend to only work out-of-the box on Linux.<BR>Perhaps it should be "demoted" to second-tier GHC support as well, at least<BR>to the extent that Windows bugs won't hold up a release?<BR><BR>(I write this as a Windows user who also manages some Linux servers. I agree<BR>that Windows support is important, but it seems to be unreasonably "taking"<BR>far more than it "gives".)<BR><BR><BR><BR>--<BR>View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Haskell-Support-on-Windows-tp5746711.html<BR>Sent from the Haskell - Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list<BR>Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org<BR>http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users<BR></BODY></HTML>