Win32 libraries for Haskell

[Sigbjorn Finne]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Peyton-Jones" <simonpj at microsoft.com>
To: <libraries at haskell.org>
Cc: <cvs-ghc at haskell.org>; "Graham Klyne" <gk at ninebynine.org>;
<ka2_mail at yahoo.com>; "Sigbjorn Finne" <sof at galois.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 03:15
Subject: Win32 libraries for Haskell


> The situation seems to be this:
>
> * Sigbjorn is actively maintaining hslibs/win32 for Galois reasons, and
> is
>    reluctant to transfer to libraries/win32 because it's untested (I'm
> assuming
>    that the Green-Card dependency is soluble by putting the GC output
>    in the CVS tree).  Fair enough.
>

I have no motivation other than it is a useful library used by many.

GreenCard output, and output by the FFI backend in particular,
is pretty clunky(*), so much so that the *.hs files in hslibs/win32 has been
cleaned up quite a bit. Furthermore, GreenCard produces non-reentrant
code, which is why I don't recommend it being used, libraries/Win32 or
otherwise.

hslibs/win32/ doesn't improve on the non-reentrancy problem, btw.

--sigbjorn

* - having written large chunks of the current GC codebase, I feel
     entitled to criticize it :)