Help from windows developers please? Re: [darcs-devel] darcs patch: Start Compat.hs...

David Roundy droundy at abridgegame.org
Wed Aug 3 07:57:09 PDT 2005


On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 11:39:47PM +0200, Peter Strand wrote:
> David Roundy wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >It'd be really nice if we could have a developer with windows look over
> >these patches, see what works, what doesn't, and generally give feedback.
> >I'm happy to review Ian's patches, but in this case I'm not particularly
> >competent to do so.  It'd be great if we had a windows developer who was
> >willing to work with Ian on these changes.
> 
> I pulled Ian's patches and got it to compile and run on windows, by 
> implementing parts of System.Posix.{Files,IO} and RawMode.hsc. Haven't 
> tested it very much yet, but I can't see any fundamental problems with 
> the change.

Will you be willing to be in charge of making it work with windows? Or does
someone else want to volunteer for that job?

There's also the question of to what extent we really want to achieve
portability by emulating System.Posix under windows.  To me it would feel
cleaner to write our own portable file-handling interface that is
implemented for each system (probably calling System.Posix on posix
systems, and perhaps using the ffi on windows).
-- 
David Roundy




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