Malcolm Wallace wrote:
The suggestion was to have a single Download button, leading to a
*page* of suitably described links, allowing the user to choose
whether they only wanted the basics (a choice of compiler/interpreter
+ cabal), or the whole Platform, or something else. It would be the
ideal place to explain what cabal is and how to use hackage to get
more libraries than are contained in the platform. It would perhaps
reduce the clutter on the front page that some people complained of
(although I don't personally think it cluttered).
It seems I'm contraversial even when I'm trying to be uncontraversial. :-}
Anyway, the above suggestion sounds most optimal to me. Haskell tends to
suffer from a frustrating degree of "information dragmentation" (I love
whoever came up with that term...), and collecting a bunch of
information in one place like this sounds very useful.
I guess in a way, the current "implementations" page could become this
page (or this new page makes the existing implementations page obsolete...)
I also think it might be worth mentioning HP from the GHC homepage, just
in case anybody has that bookmarked directly...
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