Hello Cale, Sunday, November 4, 2007, 1:52:08 PM, you wrote:
>> 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. ;) 1. there are many windows users 2. afaiu the situation, official unix packages becomes available much later than user-compiled ones > 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. and don't forget that haskell.org box serves not only ghc downloading and even not only haskell site i propose: in a few first days after release, make available only alternative download places (SoundForge, BitTorrent...) and then, when first wave of downloads shrinks, make direct links. also, hackage server may be a better place for storing such popular downloads? -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe