On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 3:01 AM, Simon Peyton Jones <simo...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> I notice that in the new Haskell pages, the Platform is definitely not > the recommended way to go: > > > > Like Richard, I was astonished by this. I always thought that the Haskell > Platform was *the* route of choice to install GHC, together with a > respectable set of libraries. It’s certainly what I install on a new > machine! > I do too...! But follow the new Haskell.org pages like you are a user "just want to install Haskell"... you'll never end up with the Platform. It looks like the Platform deprecated on the Haskell.org site for Linux and OS X in June <https://github.com/haskell-infra/hl/commit/4ecad2973c162194cf038fd35769df02871f64f7>, and for Windows in Jan <https://github.com/haskell-infra/hl/commit/6277ba664b4ac83deda54624e7cfa2ec1b489c3a#diff-1d72a4aea33e339bb22dd20b5968644d> . *Infrastructure team:* Was there a discussion and decision to do that somewhere? Let’s not forget the large but non-vocal set of ill-informed and/or > would-be users, who want a simple answer to “How do I install GHC?”. It > may be that the HP formula needs re-visiting, but I think it’s very > important that we continue to give a very simple (click here) answer to > that question. > As evidenced by yourself, and those that spoke up here, there is also a vocal, well-informed set of users who want such a thing as well.
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