On 04/11/2007, Alex Tarkovsky
brad clawsie wrote:
do torrents exist for 6.8.1? my experience is that people will use torrents if they are offered and they really do lift the pressure from the origin domain (haskell.org)
Er, you want to torrent a 7 MB file? ;) That would be a waste of effort and resources server-side, and a minor hassle client-side. Plus the file is so small it won't shave any significant load off the server, especially when nobody will bother to seed it. I'm sure most *nix users get GHC from their distribution's mirrors anyhow. Mirrors are really what you need. ;)
The binaries are ~47MiB apiece. I suspect that almost everyone on Windows and Linux x86 will want the binaries too, since compiling GHC tends to take a while. Anyway, it seems like haskell.org is becoming more responsive now, but it would be something to keep in mind for the future.