#70: Add shortcut to Hackage to Start Menu
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Reporter: bulatz | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: (none-specified) | Resolution:
Keywords: |
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Comment (by panne):
IMHO this would lead the HP into the wrong direction. Easy installation of
single software packages (not necessarily Haskell ones), including their
dependencies, is the domain of platform tools like YaST, yum, apt, ... The
HP would only try to mirror already existing functionality and will
probably do it much worse than tools which already exist for years.
Windows is of course a different story, but then we should call this
ticket "Build a Haskell-YaST-look-alike for Windows".
The main point of the HP *is* to have a kind of "sumo" installer,
containing a large, consistent set of Haskell packages. We should
deliberately *not* distinguish between "professional" developers and
others, this would again lead to API fragmentation.
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