<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">The only loss is the ability to look at changes over time. If that's an important feature, you could write the files with a commit hash in the name. But that may not be worth it.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 4:38 AM, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org" target="_blank">ghc-devs@haskell.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It's very helpful to have a live, up to date PDF.  Not everyone has OTT, which is required to make it.  And OTT isn't available on Windows at all :-(<br>
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|  From: ghc-devs [mailto:<a href="mailto:ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.org">ghc-devs-bounces@<wbr>haskell.org</a>] On Behalf Of Phil<br>
|  Ruffwind<br>
|  Sent: 14 March 2017 00:14<br>
|  To: <a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org">ghc-devs@haskell.org</a><br>
|  Subject: Re: Removing core-spec.pdf from repository?<br>
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|  > I also dislike generated files in repos, but would like to point out<br>
|  > that there are a few pages out there that reference the link<br>
|  > <a href="https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/master/docs/core-spec/core-spec.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/ghc/ghc/<wbr>blob/master/docs/core-spec/<wbr>core-spec.pdf</a><br>
|  > directly; these would brake. But there is probably nothing we can<br>
|  > easily do about that.<br>
|<br>
|  Could replace it with a plain text file that says: "MOVED to<br>
|  <a href="https://XXX" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://XXX</a>"<br>
|  The build system could then be tweaked to output the .pdf somewhere<br>
|  else so it would not overwrite this dummy file.<br>
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