A common theme has emerged in recent threads about how the Haskell Platform is presented on the Haskell.org downloads page. It tends to go something like:
I tried using Haskell Platform a couple years ago, and it was terrible! I > couldn't install the libraries I wanted to use. Why on earth does > Haskell.org continue to recommend this? For folks who are Fully Immersed in the goings-on of HP and its recent evolution, this is frustrating because we know the criticism is out of date. However, can we really fault people for being confused? To summarize: - What we now call "Haskell Platform Full" (HPF) used to just be called "Haskell Platform" (HP) - HPF/legacy HP include packages beyond the GHC-bundled packages, which introduces potentially problematic constraints when solving for new libraries - "Haskell Platform Minimal" (HPM) includes the same executables as HPF, but in terms of goals is more like an evolution of the now-defunct minimal installers - People burned by solver errors with legacy HP see the words "Haskell Platform" and assume HPM is going to give them the same problems Let's bikeshed up a different name for HPM, so that the bad experiences people once had with legacy HP will stop hampering adoption of a product that is not at all subject to those same issues.
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