[Haskell-cafe] runInteractiveProcess and hGetLine on Windows

[David Roundy]

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 08:33:23AM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> David Roundy wrote:
> > This is the correct behavior (although it's debatable whether kpsewhich
> > should be outputting in text mode).
> 
> I think it would be more accurate to say that runInteractiveProcess has
> an inadequate API, since you can't indicate whether the interaction with
> the other process should happen in text or binary mode.

I don't see any reason to support text mode.  It's easy to filter by hand
if you absolutely have to deal with ugly applications on ugly platforms.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University