Esa Ilari Vuokko wrote:
On 7/6/07, Esa Ilari Vuokko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On 7/6/07, Sigbjorn Finne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't chased down the current details here, but how are you > handling the Unicows compatibility DLLs now, then?Oops. -.- Good catch.When talking with Ian at irc, I didn't realise Win32 had support for that.To answer the question: we don't have unicows-support now. Maybe it shouldbe added to Setup.hs?There's a thread at libraries@ about supporting Win 9x. It is a bit inconclusive at the moment - I'd like to simply ditch Win 9x support, but it appears thereexists end-users in Win 9x.Thread is split over month-boundary so I could't get single link to whole thing.http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2007-June/007700.html http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2007-July/007704.htmlhttp://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2007-July/007707.html (and follow up)
The main issue as I see it is testing. We can support Win9x if there is someone willing to look after it; I don't think we have the spare manpower right now to do this. It would need to be done with Win9x in a virtual machine, probably.
The secondary issue is that keeping Win9x support prevents us from using cool WinNT APIs in core parts of the system, which is a bit of a pain. I believe one or two of these have already crept in.
Personally I think we should drop it. Win9x users still have the option of using older GHCs. Whatever we do, we should clearly document it on http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms.
Cheers,
Simon
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