Hello Cale, Sunday, November 4, 2007, 1:52:08 PM, you wrote:
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. ;)
1. there are many windows users 2. afaiu the situation, official unix packages becomes available much later than user-compiled ones
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.
and don't forget that haskell.org box serves not only ghc downloading and even not only haskell site i propose: in a few first days after release, make available only alternative download places (SoundForge, BitTorrent...) and then, when first wave of downloads shrinks, make direct links. also, hackage server may be a better place for storing such popular downloads? -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com