>Hopefully that wouldn't become the only way to download GHC.
That wasn't my intention to suggest it to be the One True Way to download it.
>Sounds great, but is it reasonable? GNU/Linux package managers AFAIK don't install Haskell libraries either
Some do! On Fedora, the Haskell libraries that are shipped are prefixed with `ghc-`, and Arch Linux has become quite infamous due to the way they ship dynamically-linked Haskell libraries and executables. By GUI I was thinking of something like DNFDragora[0] and its Ubuntu counterpart (whose name I forgot).
>It's true that one-liners and scripting is harder in Cmd, but simple commands (no pipes, no flow control etc.) that are the bread and butter for developers work just fine. I sense I'm missing some context; why is this an issue?
cmd.exe is fundamentally a foreign interface to most Windows users, even for developers. IDEs and GUIs have reigned for a long long time in Windows Land, and Microsoft has no will to change this state of fact. WSL is a tool developed to Linux / macOS power-users who incidentally need to deal with Windows, or needed an argument to switch to the platform.
In addition to all of this, shipping a .tar.lz format was a terrible mistake, for no tool shipped with Windows is able to properly handle it, but I do not wish to blame anyone, it just needs to be changed to .zip and we can be done with it.
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