andrewcoppin: > Jason Dusek wrote: > >Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>...it has been my general experience that almost everything > >>obtained from Hackage fails miserably to compile under > >>Windows. (IIRC, one package even used a Bash script as part of > >>the build process!) I haven't seen similar problems on Linux. > >>(But I don't use Linux very often.) > >> > > > > I try very hard to make my programs work on Windows; and > > indeed, one of things I appreciate about Haskell is how easy > > it is to create binaries and packages that are cross platform. > > > > Certainly the one or two "pure Haskell" packages out there (e.g., > PureMD5) seem to build without issue. The trouble is that almost all > useful Haskell packages are bindings to C libraries, and that varies by > platform. :-( > > > However, the only time I actually use Windows is to build and > > test my Haskell packages. Most of the people on this list -- > > and I wager, most people on the mailing lists for any open > > source programming language -- are working on a NIXalike; we > > can work with bug reports, but we can't very well be the > > fabled "many eyeballs" on a platform we don't use. Ask not > > what your Haskell can do for you, but rather what you can do > > for your Haskell :) > > > > As I say, last time I tried this, I'd just failed to build half a dozen > other interesting packages, so by the time I'd got to trying to get > database access working, I was frustrated to the point of giving up. >
Do you mail the maintainers when there's a bulid failure? There's around 1000 packages on hackage now, and we don't have a build farm, so you can make a real difference by mailing authors when their package fails on windows. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
