Packages in GHC 6.6

[Krasimir Angelov]

The usage of something else than cabarc isn't supported directly and
will require extra work. Is the lzma algorithm better than bz2? If I
have to use something better than cabarc I would prefer more popular
compression algorithm. For Visual Haskell the Nullsoft installer isn't
an option because it doesn't support the MSI merge modules.

Cheers,
   Krasimir


On 8/24/06, Bulat Ziganshin <bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Krasimir,
>
> Thursday, August 24, 2006, 6:15:17 PM, you wrote:
>
> > I wrote simple tool that I am using to build MSI installer for Visual
> > Haskell. It will not be so hard to extend it to support Cabal. After
> > that it will be easy to prepare an installer for GHC with optional
> > libraries. Don't expect it to be ready for 6.6 release!
>
> i don't develop it, so i can't complain, but just for case anyone can
> take it - msi installer uses MS lzx (cabarc) compression algorithm.
> there is a better compression algorithm, called lzma, which makes
> compressed GHC bundle about 20% smaller. one can either use MSI
> installer containing one large lzma archive unpakced to temp dir, or
> Nullsoft installer that supports lzma directly, to cut off size of
> installer. it's important for mans like me with modem access/paid
> traffic
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com
>
>