[Haskell-cafe] The Future of MissingH

[John Goerzen]

On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 12:37:10PM -0800, Jason Dagit wrote:
> On 11/24/06, John Goerzen <jgoerzen at complete.org> wrote:
> 
> >What else should be done to make this a valuable resource for Haskell
> >programmers?  And a showcase for what is possible with Haskell?
> 
> I was going to try MissingH on win32 but when I did it refused to
> compile due to a dependency on, I think, Posix.  It would be great if
> this could be fixed/relaxed.  At the time I was looking forward to
> trying the logging facilities.

That should be completely fixed for a long time now.  But I will admit
I haven't tried to build the latest version on GHC 6.6.

In fact, I wrote an entire module (MissingH.IO.StatCompat) so that
Windows users can also enjoy HVFS.

-- John