Re: merge wip-haskell?

[John Soo]

Hi Ricardo and Jakub,

Ah ok. Sorry I had forgotten the point of the thread.  Sounds like a plan!

- John

On Aug 7, 2020, at 8:59 AM, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:


Jakub Kądziołka <kuba@kadziolka.net> writes:

>> On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 08:12:36AM -0700, John Soo wrote:
>> I would rather wait until some evidence that the closure size would be too 
>> large. Also I’m not sure propagation is necessary for dependents to find 
>> libraries or use paths from an input.
> 
> Ricardo already explained that this is indeed the case.

Yes, and for the case of pandoc it’s significant.  The closure of
ghc-pandoc is >3GiB right now and with the changes it’s <200MiB.  This
affects lots of R packages that need Rmarkdown, and lots of bioinfo
packages.

There's no doubt that moving the static libs to their own output has a
significant impact on closure size.

-- 
Ricardo