Re: runghc, ".hs" suffix

2005-05-17 Thread Frederik Eaton
Excellent, thanks. Once you've committed this, it seems like there should be potential for haskell scripts to be used in some of the same situations as e.g. perl scripts. Is 'runhaskell' supposed to be a standard handle to a working haskell interpreter, e.g. possibly runhugs or runnhc? Should peo

Feature request: Distribute Windows version as a ZIP file

2005-05-17 Thread Brian Smith
It would convenient for some users to have GHC for Windows available as a ZIP file (i.e. not just as an MSI file). The Windows Installer is disabled on many systems, such as in University computer labs and corporate workstations. I discovered this when my laptop died and I tried to download and run

Feature request: Distribute Windows version as a ZIP file

2005-05-17 Thread Brian Smith
It would convenient for some users to have GHC for Windows available as a ZIP file (i.e. not just as an MSI file). The Windows Installer is disabled on many systems, such as in University computer labs and corporate workstations. I discovered this when my laptop died and I tried to download and run

RE: the impossible happened

2005-05-17 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
I believe that the problem here is that the Wash distribution isn't right for GHC 6.4; in particular, the package-specification format changed a bit. Wash needs to be updated. Sorry about this -- the packaging story for Haskell is still in flux, and that means that old packages won't necessaril

RE: CTime problem

2005-05-17 Thread Simon Marlow
On 17 May 2005 04:57, Frederik Eaton wrote: > It looks like CTime (Foreign.C.Types) used to be an Integral but isn't > anymore, why? Isn't it just an integer? time_t isn't necessarily an integral type (see the Single Unix spec). Cheers, Simon _