I've updated the configure script to download the mingw distribution on the fly (D339 <https://phabricator.haskell.org/D339>, #9218 <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9218>). I could use some help with a few things: 1. Validating the update to gcc 4.8.3. I tried to run the tests and got some failures, but I am not sure if they indicate problems with gcc or it's just noise. 2. Some general testing of the updated configure script. 3. Testing the build process on a 32-bit platform. 4. Setup of a local mirror of the distribution files on haskell.org. On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvriedel@gmail.com
wrote:
On 2014-10-13 at 10:57:10 +0200, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
I think the potential difficulty is (1). Maybe they take it down (e.g. they move on to version X so they take down old version Y).
An alternative would be to stash a copy somewhere on GHC’s main web server, and wget that. I’d be more comfortable doing that; less dependence on others.
I guess storing a copy somewhere on https://ghc.haskell.org/ should be ok (I'm hoping Austin may weigh in wrt CDN-related considerations). I'd suggest using it as a fallback location though. I.e. try downloading from the official upstream location, and if that fails (either due to I/O errors and/or unexpected checksum), fallback to using our locally mirrored copy. However, we may need to take into account license issues, such as hosting the source-code as well, if we host binary distributions depending on the licenses involved (I'm not sure if this was ever considered for ghc-tarballs.git to begin with)
Cheers, hvr
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