Sure. Ccing him on this thread now. (Note that we’re having a seperate discussion he’s involved with on -infra about signposting the HP and other options on the haskell.org/downloads page — so this is in a sense, about just making sure we only have the one big bikeshed to color rather than many little ones :-P)
—Gershom On June 26, 2015 at 11:03:33 AM, Simon Peyton Jones (simo...@microsoft.com) wrote: > I’m ok with all of this, but I’d like just to check with Mark L to see how he > suggests signposting > the HP > > Simon > > From: Glasgow-haskell-users > [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-boun...@haskell.org] > On Behalf Of Michael Snoyman > Sent: 26 June 2015 15:59 > To: Gershom B; Glasgow-Haskell-Users users > Subject: Re: tweaking text on the ghc downloads page > > One point I've seen users confused about in the past is that some guides > recommend downloading > GHC directly as part of setting up a full distribution, e.g.: > > https://www.haskell.org/downloads/linux (manual install) > I'd take the STOP out entirely, and just give a link to the /downloads page, > to avoid this > confusion. The rest of your text looks spot on to me, it's literally the one > word "STOP" > that seems to have people out of sorts most often. > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 5:54 PM Gershom B > > wrote: > I know there is a plan for some broader ghc webpage redesign. > > In the meantime, apparently people find the current "Stop" text terribly > troublesome. > This is because, of course, it points to the platform and now some people > believe that > a minimal distribution is more usable, etc. > > Just to take this issue off the agenda, I would like, if there are no > objections, to just > change that text as follows. > > Current: > > "Stop! > > For most users, we recommend installing the _Haskell Platform_ instead of > GHC. The current > Haskell Platform release includes a recent GHC release as well as some other > tools (such > as cabal), and a larger set of libraries that are known to work together." > > Proposed: > > "Stop! > > For most users, we recommend installing _a proper distribution_ instead of > just GHC. > A distribution includes a recent GHC release as well as other important tools > (such as > cabal, for installing libraries), and potentially a broader set of libraries > known > to work together." > > And where before the "Haskell Platform" text would link to of course the > platform page, > the new "proper distribution" text would now link to > https://www.haskell.org/downloads > where we could then argue to our heart's content about the best way to > present the various > download and installation options as we go forward. > > So, this doesn't resolve any controversy, but it at least centralizes it. > > If there's no objection, I'll try to get to this tomorrow? > > --Gershom > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users > _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
