On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 06:32:42PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Package: darcs-buildpackage > Version: 0.5.4 > Severity: normal > > Hello, > > while installing darcs-buildpackage I almost run out of disk space. And > wonderes. WTF? This package with (relatively) basic functionalities > takes 5mb? For what? To have a Haskel interpreter hardcoded into each > executable?
No, Haskell code is compiled directly to machine code. What you are seeing is the ghc6 Haskell runtime library which is statically linked into the executable. > I suggest rewritting in a common script language (Perl, Python) and make > it Arch: all. Actually, Haskell can also be interpreted, and the Haskell interpreter hugs98 is already in Debian. The package would be much smaller if it uses hugs. Personally, I think a 5MB package is fairly small compared to a lot of things out there. But, having said that, I'm leaving this bug open and I will investigate switching it to using hugs. However, hugs is 11MB (pretty much the same size as Perl). So it wouldn't save you space immediately, but as more utilitie start getting written in Haskell, it may save you space over the long run. What do you think? -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
