David Roundy wrote:
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 11:39:47PM +0200, Peter Strand wrote:
David Roundy wrote:
Hi all,
It'd be really nice if we could have a developer with windows look over
these patches, see what works, what doesn't, and generally give feedback.
I'm happy to review Ian's patches, but in this case I'm not particularly
competent to do so. It'd be great if we had a windows developer who was
willing to work with Ian on these changes.
I pulled Ian's patches and got it to compile and run on windows, by
implementing parts of System.Posix.{Files,IO} and RawMode.hsc. Haven't
tested it very much yet, but I can't see any fundamental problems with
the change.
Will you be willing to be in charge of making it work with windows? Or does
someone else want to volunteer for that job?
Sure, it's not that much work, mostly basic file handling.
There's also the question of to what extent we really want to achieve
portability by emulating System.Posix under windows. To me it would feel
cleaner to write our own portable file-handling interface that is
implemented for each system (probably calling System.Posix on posix
systems, and perhaps using the ffi on windows).
Well, I would normally agree. But in this case I think it's easiest to
use System.Posix as such a portability layer since it's not that
different from the windows stuff and some of it is already there.
System.Posix.Types is available on windows, and so is
System.Posix.Internals, which contains most of what we need in a "raw"
form (ffi definitions and a couple of helper functions).
I'm only speculating now but I wouldn't be too surprised if most of
System.Posix will be available on windows not too far in the future
(like the "unix" module in ocaml). At least the parts which aren't too
unix-specific (like fork and signals).
/Peter
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