- Yes, 8.0.1 as Richard pointed out in that commit. 
   - I tried 0.16, because that's what's in the README*. Others have been 
   scolded for not reading the instructions closely.
   - Yes, I also tried 0.17.1, and that failed as well. 

For me, what is needed is a more explicit set of instructions than
> Before getting Haskell Platform, make sure it is going to give you these 
things <https://www.haskell.org/platform/contents.html>.

As someone who has never used Haskell, and is just getting going with Elm, 
I would rather see explicit, tested, instructions. 
*I tried to make a minor fix to these, but there are some odd errors in 
Travis. Maybe these will help shed some light. 

https://travis-ci.org/elm-lang/elm-platform/jobs/156272879#L754-L794
https://travis-ci.org/elm-lang/elm-platform/jobs/156272879#L861




On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 12:57:41 PM UTC-4, Janis Voigtländer wrote:
>
>
>    - That does not yet tell me which version of GHC you have. I could 
>    guess that 8.0.1, but is that the case? 
>    - Why is it that you try to install 0.16 of the platform in your gist, 
>    rather than 0.17 or better yet 0.17.1? 
>    - It is not clear that GHC 8.0.1 will fail you (with 0.17.1 of 
>    elm-platform). Have you tried? 
>
> ​
>
> 2016-08-30 18:53 GMT+02:00 suttlecommakevin <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>>:
>
>> I'm on Mac. I installed *ghc* via brew cask install haskell-platform. 
>>
>> It's not clear where or how to obtain GHC < 8.0.1 reliably or 
>> consistently. 
>>
>> https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-platform/commit/f46c95cf826651c56cf11388148df4406a834ee8
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 12:49:38 PM UTC-4, Joey Eremondi wrote:
>>>
>>> @suttlecommakevin Are you trying to use Elm from Hackage, or the Elm 
>>> platform? Hackage elm is woefully out of date.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Janis Voigtländer <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> You don't feel like telling us which GHC version you are trying to do 
>>>> this with?
>>>>
>>>> 2016-08-30 18:11 GMT+02:00 suttlecommakevin <[email protected]>:
>>>>
>>>>> I get missing deps, but because of conflicts that were rejected.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://gist.github.com/kevinSuttle/a867b0d2048f6f6c6f646964061ec3c1
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thursday, August 14, 2014 at 11:19:13 PM UTC-4, Evan Cameron wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've installed elm on arch using a cabal sandbox and the cabal 
>>>>>> install methods. I've added the /bin directory to my path so commands 
>>>>>> like 
>>>>>> elm-get run from everywhere.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm trying to build the elm-lang.org locally but cabal configure 
>>>>>> fails
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ➜  elm-lang.org git:(stable) elm-get install
>>>>>> Installing all declared dependencies...
>>>>>> Cloning repo johnpmayer/elm-webgl
>>>>>> Checking out version 0.1
>>>>>> Cloning repo johnpmayer/elm-linear-algebra
>>>>>> Checking out version 1.0
>>>>>> Success!
>>>>>> ➜  elm-lang.org git:(stable) cabal configure
>>>>>> Resolving dependencies...
>>>>>> Configuring elm-website-0.1.0.2...
>>>>>> cabal: At least the following dependencies are missing:
>>>>>> Elm >=0.12,
>>>>>> HTTP -any,
>>>>>> aeson -any,
>>>>>> blaze-html -any,
>>>>>> blaze-markup -any,
>>>>>> cmdargs -any,
>>>>>> mtl -any,
>>>>>> snap-core -any,
>>>>>> snap-server -any,
>>>>>> unordered-containers -any
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> how is it even possible that elm-get ran if Elm is missing?
>>>>>>
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