patch applied (ghc): Use mingw tarballs to get mingw on Windows

[Ian Lynagh]

On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 08:31:54PM +1000, Ben Lippmeier wrote:
>
> If you add ./mingw/gcc-core-3.4.5-20060117-3.tar.gz to the darcs repo,  
> won't that file now exist in darcs/patches forever?

Yes (unless you do a partial get or lazy get).

> I'm worried that every time we update gcc we'll get an immortal copy in 
> darcs/patches, which will significantly increase the size of the  
> snapshots over time...

This patch was 16M, and I have 152M of patches.

There's also a (much smaller) tarball in libffi/tarball.

I guess an alternative would be to have the darcs-all script get the
tarballs, and delete any out-of-date tarballs you already have. Should
we do that instead?


Thanks
Ian