Hi devs,
I had a chat earlier today with someone and found myself unable to
explain the reason why GHC came with boot dependencies like xhtml, that
are dependencies of Haddock and HPC.
Obviously, the binaries are (haskell-)dynamically linked when
distributed, but what is the reason why haddock, hpc, etc can't be
(haskell-)statically linked when distributed?
Surely the size of binaries can't be the only concern, otherwise we'd
use upx¹ on them when distributing them.
Cheers,
Hécate
1: https://upx.github.io
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