Has ghc-9.0 for windows changed to require installation?

[Phyx]

No, there's no change at all in the portability.
This looks like a fallout from switching from Make to Hadrian.

ghcii.sh was created as an artifact of make install. Hadrian seems to lack
this step.

Note that this script is nothing magical, it's just a hack around how
signal handlers in Native windows and Cygwin processes are handled.

I'm not entirely sure it's still needed with the new I/O manager, however
that's not on yet by default..

Anyways support should probably be added to Hadrian.

Kind regards,
Tamar

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On Mon, Feb 8, 2021, 14:43 Moritz Angermann <moritz.angermann at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for flagging this. This would be the opposite direction of what
> I’ve been advocating for. That we get bindists for Linux and macOS that
> work by simply unpacking them.
>
> On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 at 10:05 PM, Takenobu Tani <takenobu.hs at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi devs,
>>
>> The ghc-binary for windows needs to `make install` since ghc-9.0 [1].
>> Is this an intended change?
>>
>> Previously, ghc-8.10.4 binary for windows [2] doesn't need to `make
>> install`.
>> We only expand the tar-file and then we can execute `bin/ghcii.sh`.
>>
>> [1]:
>> https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.0.1/ghc-9.0.1-x86_64-unknown-mingw32.tar.xz
>> [2]:
>> https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.10.4/ghc-8.10.4-x86_64-unknown-mingw32.tar.xz
>>
>> Regards,
>> Takenobu
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