I think it makes sense, the HP is supposed to set up the entire
environment needed for typical haskell development (at least, that is
my understanding). As such, what's the point in making downloading
haskell mean downloading a single _peice_ of haskell (GHC) only to
have to download _everything else anyway_ (cabal-et-al, various
"standard" libraries, etc).
Perhaps we could put it to some kind of community vote.
/Joe
On Dec 3, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Don Stewart wrote:
vandijk.roel:
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Gregory Crosswhite
<[email protected]> wrote:
On a more serious note, "Download Haskell" /= "Download Haskell
Platform", so if I were glancing down the sidebar looking for a
link to download the "Haskell Platform" then the first link
wouldn't have registered for me. And putting a "X has been
released link!" in the news does not count as a prominent download
link.
If I wanted to know something *about* the *Haskell Platform* I would
click the link The Haskell Platform under the section About. So it is
actually mentioned 3 times on the front page. What could be improved
are the 2 download links: "Download Haskell" and "Download GHC". It
would perhaps be better to have one nice big "Download" button that
takes you to a separate download page.
Having a single download link that only points to the Haskell Platform
would be a bit of a policy shift. Is the community ready to accept
that
users looking for "Haskell" should be given the HP binaries?
If so, I can change it to have a single "Download" button. Though it
might be preferable to do that after the next release (the first
non-beta release).
-- Don
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