bulat.ziganshin: > Hello Magnus, > > Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 11:37:23 AM, you wrote: > > > I don't know of any other way either. I just strongly oppose the idea > > that HP should take on the role of providing C lib bindings just > > because on some platforms it's hard to satisfy the C dependencies. > > those some platfroms are 97% of all dowanloads and success on these > platforms is the key to overall Haskell success. moreover, asd i > understand the situation, lack of package manager on Windows was main > motivation to establish HP - for unicies it's not really required
The motivation was to have a high quality Haskell environment on every system. That the unicies would all agree on what they provide was "Haskell". Fixing up Windows was a nice side effect. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe