Andrew Coppin wrote: > Depends what you develop. I know of plenty of developers who use MS > Visual Studio for everything, for example.
And those developers do not care whether Haskell libraries compile on windows or not. > You can pretend that Windows isn't popular and thus there's no need to > support it, but to me that seems like a fairly unrealistic point of view. Windows is popular amongst general computer users, but less popular amongst developers and less popular still amongst Haskell developers. > > The problem here is that window is the odd one out. > > This, it seems, is why there are programs in this world that are > designed for Windows but (sometimes) also run on Unix, This is a very small proportion of all windows applications and many/ most of them run via Wine, a code base of 1.8 million lines with a worth according to Ohloh of $29Mil (which I consider very conservative): http://www.ohloh.net/p/wine > and other > programs which are designed for Unix but (sometimes) also run on Windows. A far larger proportion of Unix program run on windows, due to two factors: - Unix people write command line apps and libraries which are always easier to port to windows. - Unix people doing things like windows backends to GTK+ and QT to make GUI applications portable to windows. > I'm just saying, we could still do better... My point is that its up to people who care about windows to fix things for windows. I am a user of Debian and Ubuntu. About a year ago I became sick and tired of the poor state of haskell in Debian. I didn't complain, I joined the debian-haskell-maintainers group and started packaging haskell stuff for Debian. Now, the situation has improved vastly. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe