[m-dev.] for review: Announcing Mercury 0.8

[Fergus Henderson]

On 19-Nov-1998, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> I have a .deb package ready, but I need to test it for a bit.  It
> weighs in at 10Mb which is acceptable, but only just. 
> 
> (This is nowhere near as bad as the alpha binary distribution, which is
> a whopping 35Mb download).

That's mainly because the alpha binary distribution was built with
`configure --enable-all-grades'.  We could build another alpha binary
distribution without that I suppose.

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