Removing core-spec.pdf from repository?

[Elliot Cameron]

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.

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 4:38 AM, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs <
ghc-devs at haskell.org> wrote:

> 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 :-(
>
> Simon
>
> |  -----Original Message-----
> |  From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Phil
> |  Ruffwind
> |  Sent: 14 March 2017 00:14
> |  To: ghc-devs at haskell.org
> |  Subject: Re: Removing core-spec.pdf from repository?
> |
> |  > I also dislike generated files in repos, but would like to point out
> |  > that there are a few pages out there that reference the link
> |  > https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/master/docs/core-spec/core-spec.pdf
> |  > directly; these would brake. But there is probably nothing we can
> |  > easily do about that.
> |
> |  Could replace it with a plain text file that says: "MOVED to
> |  https://XXX"
> |  The build system could then be tweaked to output the .pdf somewhere
> |  else so it would not overwrite this dummy file.
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