On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Ashish SHUKLA
Well, they're the bootstrap tarballs, which port downloads and installs temporarily in 'work' directory to bootstrap installation.
I do not build them with the "ghc-$(ProjectVersion)-boot" (but "ghc-$(ProjectVersion)") directory similarly to the vanilla Linux binary packages, thus they can be hardly used for bootstrapping purposes in the classical way. Yesterday I repacked all the bootstrap we have for GHC 6.10.4 (to unbreak lang/ghc), and I got tarballs of ~38 MB each by omitting profiling libraries and documentation. I think they should remain compact as possible. It is easy for me to build separate bootstraps and vanillas, since I use almost the same environment for them. (I would like document the exact process on the GHC wiki soon.)
And what about schedule of IRC meetings ?
I am fine with them (every or every other Saturday, around 19:00 CEST, #haskell-FreeBSD @ freenode), however this week I might not be able to make it. :g