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Spot on. Author of IHaskell here; written the majority of the IHaskell codebase, and, as you guessed, I haven't used Windows in over a decade. That said, I am
by PieSquared 10y ago
Spot on. Author of IHaskell here; written the majority of the IHaskell codebase, and, as you guessed, I haven't used Windows in over a decade.
That said, I am happy to help folks get it working natively under Windows. There is a somewhat challenging technical issue, which is that IHaskell uses the Haskell `unix` package, because it needs supports for creating and using pipes in order to intercept stdin, stderr, and stdout. I'm sure that this is somehow also doable on Windows, but it just takes someone who wants to dive in and get it working; I'd be happy to advise such a person and merge any changes they need to make.
- baldfat 10y agoThe second thing is that Windows 10 could actually use this naively due to bash become apart of some of Windows 10 through the Anniversary Edition of Windows 10.
- marchdown 10y agoI want to get involved with an open source project, I am familiar with Haskell and enthusiastic about making it more accessible. I've just completed an educational project where I've used iPython with my students and I would have used Haskell if the tooling were a bit smoother. So far the entry barrier was too high for me but I want to reach out and ask if anyone is willing to hold my hand a little so that I might get over the initial hurdles. Could you suggest some entry points for me? A bug tracker, an IRC channel, a github issues page? Should I just hack on it on my own until I have a specific unit of work to contribute, or is there someone who could use my help with the coding and provide guidance as to the organizational side of things?