[Haskell-cafe] Re: building "encoding" on Windows?

[wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu]

Quoting John Lato <jwlato at gmail.com>:

> Packages on Hackage are *source distributions*, so users need a
> development environment in order to make use of them.  Windows doesn't
> have a built-in development environment, therefore I don't see any
> reason why developers shouldn't choose the one most convenient to
> them.

The Haskell Platform is supposed to be a development environment...
~d