On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:01:28 +0000, Duncan Coutts <duncan.cou...@worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 16:50 -0800, Don Stewart wrote: > >> Windows people need to set up a wind...@haskell.org to sort out their >> packaging issues, like we have for debian, arch, gentoo, freebsd and >> other distros. >> >> Unless people take action to get things working well on their platform, >> it will be slow going. > >Actually instead of going off into another mailing list I would >encourage them to volunteer on the cabal-devel mailing list to help out. >There is lots we could do to improve the experience on Windows and half >the problem is we do not have enough people working on it or testing >things. That sounds like a great idea, but what specifically should Windows users do to help out? If we try to install a package on Windows and encounter a bug that we can't figure out, would it be sufficient to subscribe at http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel and to submit a bug report to cabal-de...@haskell.org ? -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
