FW: [GHC] #916: windows installer should play nice with other Haskell tools

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

Claus, Neil

Thanks for raising this.

I talked to Sigbjorn about it at ICFP.  If you two can form a consensus (giving others an opportunity to speak up) about what should be the desirable behaviour for GHC's installer, he's happy to implement it.  (Caveat: unless something turns out to be a lot of work, but that's unlikely.)

You mention two specifics:

- make file type registration optional
- do not overwrite existing default handler for .hs/.lhs, just add new non-default handlers 

I believe that the former is done already; not sure about the latter (Sigbjorn will correct me if I'm wrong).  I don’t know what a non-default handler is.

Is there anything else?  There was mention of better icons.  What did you have in mind by "coordinate with Neil for WinHugs, and possibly with others"?  Of course we'd like to coordinate... but about what specifically (apart from the above two)?

Thanks

Simon
	

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Subject: [GHC] #916: windows installer should play nice with other Haskell tools

#916: windows installer should play nice with other Haskell tools
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    Reporter:  claus.reinke at talk21.com  |        Owner:         
        Type:  bug                      |       Status:  new    
    Priority:  normal                   |    Milestone:         
   Component:  GHCi                     |      Version:  6.4.2  
    Severity:  normal                   |     Keywords:         
          Os:  Windows                  |   Difficulty:  Unknown
Architecture:  Unknown                  |  
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traditionally, the windows installers have registered ghci as the default
 tool to operate on .hs/.lhs files, without regard for existing file type
 associations. that has been a real pain for those of us who like to use
 many tools on haskell files.

 could you please ensure that future installers are more cooperative?
 - coordinate with Neil for WinHugs, and possibly with others
 - make file type registration optional	
 - do not overwrite existing default handler for .hs/.lhs, just add new
 non-default handlers (so people can use their own defaults, eg. editors,
 and still have easy access to ghci, hugs, ..)

 this has come up many times. see also:


 http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2004-
 March/006402.html
 http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/hugs-users/2006-February/000656.html
 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cvs.ghc/14819/
 http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2006-
 September/011107.html
 http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2006-
 September/011110.html

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