5 Apr
2010
5 Apr
'10
6:12 p.m.
Hey all, There are some grumblings about the "650M install" size for ghc 6.12 Arch package. A lot of this can't be helped, and disk is cheap, but it might be worth a check to see how we're packaging GHC. On Fedora, for example, they ship the prof libs in a separate package, so their install size is 270M (around half). Maybe we should do that? As a comparison, the compressed package sizes on various distros: GHC package on Arch: 109M Mac installer: 138M Windows installer: 55M Now, maybe this isn't a bug in the Arch packaging for GHC (and there are various things we can do to bring down the size, such as using dynlibs or split objects). -- Don