
#7648: please don't include mingw and mingw64 in main src tarball -----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Reporter: juhpetersen | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Component: Build System Version: 7.6.1 | Keywords: Os: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Failure: None/Unknown | Blockedby: Blocking: | Related: -----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- ghc >= 7.6 source tarballs are now over 100MB! :-( {{{ 106M ghc-7.6.2-src.tar.bz2 106M ghc-7.6.1-src.tar.bz2 81M ghc-7.6.1/ghc-tarballs/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc-4.6.3-release- win64_rubenvb.tar.bz2 25M ghc-7.4.2-src.tar.bz2 24M ghc-7.0.4-src.tar.bz2 }}} Would it please be possible to distribute the huge mingw64 and also the mingw tarballs in a separate tarball(s) for people building for Windows? They probably also do not change as often as GHC does anyway...? -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7648 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler