WinHugs progress report

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi,

I've been working on rewriting WinHugs recently, to make it work and
to make it more Windows compliant. I have put a screenshot up at
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~ndm/projects/winhugs.php, and my todo
list is http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/NeilMitchell/HugsNotes which
includes the bugs I'm working on, and a list of the good and bad
points about the rewrite. I have a version which I am now using as my
primary development environment. Its stable and reliable. Out of the
bugs mentioned in the Todo list only the options dialog not giving
people -/+98 and other super-haskell options is real enough to stop
people using it, if they want non-standard haskell. All the others are
very minor.

While I'm rewriting it I've tried to reduce the amount Hugs knows
about WinHugs. For example, I've removed #include <windows.h> from
prelude.h. There are quite a few changes to the hugs files, 8 files
have been modified, none that substantially. All the changes are
pretty local, and in general seem to be positive ones, I think.

The changes in the WinHugs directory are pretty much total, its almost
unrecognisable. There are 4 chunks of code that have survived, and
those have all been marked with big warnings. Most of the files have
changed name, there are a lot more smaller and self contained modules.
It's not the same at all.

Once the first modifications are made to the hugs directory, the
existing winhugs code will be dead forever, the two code bases are
sufficiently different that its unlikely to be able to run them side
by side off the same hugs code, without some effort (not too much, but
I can't imagine anyone will want to do it).

With this in mind, how would be best to go about merging in WinHugs2?

1) Delete WinHugs and start from scratch.
2) Make a WinHugs2 directory, and keep WinHugs around for the past,
accepting it probably won't build.
3) Find someone who wants to resurect the dead WinHugs1... (maybe)

And also when does WinHugs2 integration want to take place?

Thanks

Neil