Hi there, it includes quite a bit more 'stuff' -- profiling libraries + a bunch of tools that's needed by the backend on that platform. To help you out a little bit, I've tar'ed up the profiling libraries separate from the main distribution tar bundle, which shaves off some 10M. Available via http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/5.04.2/ To use, just unpack & go. --sigbjorn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Francis Girard" <francis.girard@free.fr> To: "Sigbjorn Finne" <sof@galois.com>; <haskell@haskell.org> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 20:20 Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 5.04.2 released

Why is the windows .msi file is more than twice as big as the Linux binary file ? ~35 Mb / ~16 Mb. With my slow and unstable french internet connection, 35 Mb is more than I can afford.

Thank you

Francis Girard Le Conquet France

Le 5 Décembre 2002 02:54, Sigbjorn Finne a écrit :

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"Simon Marlow" <simonmar@microsoft.com> writes:

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====================================================== The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 5.04.2 ======================================================

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A Win32 installer is now available via the downloads page

http://haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_504.html

The installer this time also includes ObjectIO.

--sigbjorn