I'm all for making HP the default as long as we find a way to make some of the larger packages (I'm thinking gtk2hs) either ship with HP in Windows or install correctly with HP.
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Joe Fredette <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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