Dependencies on Windows systems

[rubenmoor]

optparse-applicative is a huge improvement comapred to System.Console.getOpt that I used before. However, it comes with a bunch of additional dependencies.

For compilation on windows systems, this is a problem, because GHC on Windows has some issues. The one I am running into is described here:

commercialhaskell/stack#754

I would like to use optparse-applicative but it seems that the dependency on ansi-wl-pprint implies ansi-terminal which again implies Win32 which I can't compile (at least I strongly suspect Win32 is the cause of my troubles).

Do you think there is a way of having optparse-applicative without this dependency?

[rubenmoor]

My suspicion turned out false. There is no problem with win32 and no problem at all with optparse-applicative on Windows. Sorry for any confusion!