#7017: Rethink need for tarballs under "friendly" environment
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Reporter: FUZxxl | Owner:
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Component: Build System
Version: 7.4.2 | Keywords:
Os: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple
Failure: Other | Testcase:
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I just compiled GHC from git.
I am amazed that one needs to download extra 200 MiB of tarballs and 100
MiB of libraries to compile GHC. The tarballs directory essentially only
includes a Perl and a MinGW binary. Is this really needed for anything if
not building under environments like Windows where getting that might be
difficult?
It would certainly be nice to rethink the building system as to shrink the
number of additional MiB's one needs to download to make the compiler
work.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7017>
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