On 25 June 2004 10:26, Claus Reinke wrote:
>>> [has there been any progress on the idea of having weekly or so
>>> windows snapshots of CVS GHC generated automatically?]
>> PS Also you could just build GHC yourself! It's not hard these days.
>
> I don't doubt that in principle, and I'm happy to hear it (I'm sure a
> lot of work has gone into making it so). In practice, however:
>
> - my trusty old notebook's spec:
>
> W98, PII 366MHz, 192Mb RAM, 6Gb Disk
Bear in mind that such a machine was considered pretty beefy about 6
years ago, and we used to do all our development on such boxes. GHC has
not become any slower during that time; and it has become only slightly
bigger (the main addition being GHCi), although we now have a fair few
more libraries than we used to have.
The point being that GHC grows at a much slower rate than machines get
faster.
> PS. I never was quite sure why Haskell systems need an installer
> on Windows? There used to be Haskell libraries for accessing
> the registry, so filetype-associations and Start menu entries
> could be done optionally, by a little separate Haskell program,
> and since GHC doesn't do any localisation or PATH settings,
> the rest would mostly just be decompression and unpacking,
> right? Or is that too naive a view of things?-)
We could do all this, but then we'd have to provide an uninstall utility
too. The point of an installer is that it uses the existing Windows
Installer framework to do all this, and it cooperates nicely with the
system (e.g. GHC appears on the add/remove programs list).
I believe we *could* provide a basic tarball install package, for
snapshots. No uninstall (just remove the files), no start menu items,
etc. I think Mike Thomas was working on this recently, but I haven't
heard anything for a while.
Cheers,
Simon
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