On 04/11/2007, Alex Tarkovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > brad clawsie wrote: > > do torrents exist for 6.8.1? my experience is that people will use > > torrents if they are offered and they really do lift the pressure from > > the origin domain (haskell.org) > > Er, you want to torrent a 7 MB file? ;) That would be a waste of effort > and resources server-side, and a minor hassle client-side. Plus the file > is so small it won't shave any significant load off the server, > especially when nobody will bother to seed it. I'm sure most *nix users > get GHC from their distribution's mirrors anyhow. Mirrors are really > what you need. ;)
The binaries are ~47MiB apiece. I suspect that almost everyone on Windows and Linux x86 will want the binaries too, since compiling GHC tends to take a while. Anyway, it seems like haskell.org is becoming more responsive now, but it would be something to keep in mind for the future. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe