Malcolm Wallace:
If you are using msys, then you can get a wget program by ...
Just wanted to point out that MacOS X does not by default supply
wget either (although it does have curl).
That's right. I think it is a bad idea to require that wget is
available to get GHC. This comes back to the discussion about making
it easy for people to get GHC sources, to build the system, and to
contribute. Every additional application that you require people to
install before they can join into the fun will reduce the number of
people who will actually try.
If you want to download tarballs separately, then I think the GHC tree
must include an app (written in Haskell) to do that, which means that
whatever packages that app needs, need to go into the set of boot
libraries, which in turn is not desirable.
The simpler solution is probably to keep downloading tarballs via
darcs as before.
Manuel
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