How about change prep-bin-dist-mingw's default enviroment up todate?

[Simon Marlow]

Claus Reinke wrote:
>>> prep-bin-dist-mingw supports to bundle GHC Windows binary distribution
>>> with cc1plus.exe, now.
>>>
>>> But prep-bin-dist-mingw assumes that GHC is build by MinGQ version 3,
>>
>> Does anyone know whether or not this script is still used? It looks like
>> it contains a number of out-of-date values, and doesn't seem to be
>> called by the Windows nightly builds. I don't know about the Windows
>> installer.
> 
> Sigbjorn would be the right person to ask, I guess?
> 
> as a windows user, i have very much depended on prep-bin-dist-mingw, 
> whenever
> i want to convert my inplace GHC into something resembling the 
> snapshots/releases. i haven't done that for a while, because i tend to 
> wait for the nightly builds to go through without hitches, but i'd 
> certainly miss that feature.
> 
> and i thought that whoever intoduced the recent version-in-path changes 
> hasn't gotten
> around to updating the windows builds, which looked like the reason for 
> the ongoing failures in the nightly builds since then:
> 
>    **** building compiler binary distribution        ... failed.
>    **** canonicalizing mingw binary distribution tree... failed 
> (ghc-6.7.20070312 not found).

The nightly builds are moving to BuildBot (in case you hadn't noticed).  We have 
4 Windows builds in BuildBot: nightly HEAD/6.6 and fast HEAD/6.6.  Currently I'm 
not building any distributions from these builds, but I'd like to.

Sigbjorn is running a Windows nightly build using the old nightly build scripts 
(http://darcs.haskell.org/nightly), and building a snapshot distribution which 
is uploaded to haskell.org.  The distribution is built using the 
prep-bin-dist-mingw script (see the nightly scripts).

Ian: I think http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1093 might still be 
wrong, because the the prep-bin-dist-mingw script puts the docs in the "doc" 
subdirectory but doesn't update the haddock-html fields.

I'm happy for the prep-bin-dist-mingw script to be updated, but we should 
consult with Sigbjorn.

Cheers,
	Simon