patch applied (packages/process): Use the right OS name in the cabal file (mingw32 not windows)

[Ian Lynagh]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:14:00AM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 15:45 -0700, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> > Tue Aug 14 15:43:18 PDT 2007  Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li>
> >   * Use the right OS name in the cabal file (mingw32 not windows)
> 
> Hmm, we'd better fix this in Cabal before the ghc 6.8 release. We don't
> want to have people using "os (mingw32)" in Cabal configurations. Neil
> would kill us :-).
> 
> I suggest the os and arch be based off of the enumeration in
> Distribution.System. So we should add an arch enumeration and fill out
> the OS enumeration.

I think that, in the long-run at least, it should come from System.Info.

See also the thread starting
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2007-August/007885.html
Unfortunately I don't think we've reached any sort of concensus yet.


Thanks
Ian