ghc-6.6 candidate Win32 installer

Ross Paterson ross at soi.city.ac.uk
Sat Oct 14 05:20:52 EDT 2006


On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 04:05:49PM -0700, Sigbjorn Finne wrote:
> Afraid I have to disappoint you (again :-( ) wrt OpenAL/ALUT. A bit
> too late, but _if_ there's a wider agreement that including a
> package such as this would be generally useful, I'd be happy to
> do something about it the next time around.
> 
> cabal-get + hackage.haskell.org really ought to be the distribution
> channel for not-quite(-yet?)-mainstream packages though.

That would be fine for pure Haskell packages (when hackage is ready),
but Cabal can't handle packages that require non-trivial configuration
(like OpenAL and ALUT) on Windows without MSYS.



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