Re: [Haskell-cafe] The instability of Haskell libraries

Gwern Branwen writes:

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

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2) Not all head repositories are kept stable/buildable at all times.

Perfect, meet better. Wait, no no - aw goddammit Perfect! Why do you do this every single time? *You* get to mop the floor this time.

Sense: this makes none.

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3) I can see this getting expensive wrt space and network usage.

Not really. I do much the same thing locally. Most repos hardly ever change.

My own local repos - which includes all of patch-tag, a few GHCs, some intermediate builds, and whatnot - is about 4.5G. By my calculations* that's about 25¢ of hard-drive space.

Yet we have enough complaints about code.haskell.org or hackage being down; you want _another_ possible machine to have people complaining about not being available? :p -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com