This is all a bit of a mess. I had a chat with Simon PJ this morning
about what we should do, and the conclusion we came to is that we should
go back to using darcs for tarballs, but we should put the Windows
tarballs in a separate repository and not bother getting them on Unix
systems. libffi we might as well keep in the main repo as it isn't that
big.
Disk space taken up by the binary patches in the tarball repo will be
less of an issue when we're using --lazy in the future, and having it
separated into a another repository means that we can decide to do
something else in the future without having to keep the tarballs in the
GHC history on everyone's disk for ever.
Also, since we now have at least 12% of our repo taken up by two huge
binary patches, I suggest we take the unprecedented step of obliterating
those patches from the master repo. Unfortunately we also have to
obliterate 8 dependencies. We could have darcs-all check for the
presence of the obliterated patches and suggest unpulling them. Let's
do this now before things get worse.
Cheers,
Simon
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