HEADS UP: tarballs in darcs repos

[Roman Leshchinskiy]

On 21/10/2009, at 19:33, Simon Marlow wrote:

> If we're getting/pulling from a local repo, shouldn't we try to grab  
> the tarballs from there too?

Yes, please! I have several GHC repos which all pull from a local  
mirror. Having to wget all tarballs for each of them would be too slow  
and too expensive in terms of monthly bandwidth allowance (we don't  
have flatrates here).

In general, I don't think requiring wget is a good idea. It is an  
additional hurdle to beginners (which can be rather annoying on some  
systems like OS X) and an additional complication in an already  
complicated process for everyone else.

Roman