[Haskell-cafe] runInteractiveProcess and hGetLine on Windows

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Wed May 7 16:21:09 EDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 10:20 -0700, Jason Dusek wrote:

>   If, on the other hand, we just give in to Windows, then some
>   things are good and some are bad. First of all, if hGetLine
>   has Windows behaviour on Windows and Unix behaviour on Unix,
>   then any data files shipped with Cabal packages will likely
>   need to be newline transformed. That is annoying.

Cabal already does deal with both (and mixed) conventions because people
make files on one system and transfer them to the other.

Duncan



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