[ file actually attached this time... ]
> > In released software, I'm using only system so far, so won't be > > affected negatively. But I still haven't managed to work around the > > "works in win98"/"fails in winXP" problem I mentioned, and have so > > far avoided trying rawSystem because of the version problem. If you > > can offer a workaroung to the version problem, I'll try whether > > rawSystem is any help in my case. > > I've attached a standalone rawSystem implementation that works on both > 6.0.1 and 6.2 on Windows (on Unix it only works with 6.2; if you want > 6.0.1 support for Unix too you'll need an extra .c file). > > I'd be interested to know if this helps with your win98/winXP problem; > at the least it should free you from having to think about > one layer of > quoting. > > > Generally, it'd be great if working code would less often break with > > new releases (oh, and a portable popen2, while we're at it!-). > > We try our best! Remember that patchlevel releases only fix > bugs, never > change interfaces, so working code should never break when moving to a > new patchlevel release. Major releases can change > interfaces. We also > do a great deal of testing on every release, but bugs inevitably creep > in, especially on platforms other than our main development platform > (Linux). Which is why we're grateful for any help we can get from the > community... > > Cheers, > Simon > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users >
RawSystem.hs
Description: RawSystem.hs
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