<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 9:35 PM, Richard Eisenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eir@cis.upenn.edu" target="_blank">eir@cis.upenn.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":42b" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">I have to say that I'm quite surprised this conversation is happening at all. As far as I knew before doing some research in advance of this post, the Haskell Platform is *the* way to install Haskell on a fresh machine. It's certainly what I've relied on in getting Haskell on my machines (both MacOS 10.8). While I personally don't feel the need for the HP to have some curated set of libraries (especially now that there are other curated sets available), I do feel a strong need to have it be nice, shiny, and easy to install. At least for Mac, I don't know of a suitable replacement.<br></div></blockquote></div><br>That's interesting, because <a href="http://ghcformacosx.github.io">http://ghcformacosx.github.io</a> is pretty much the only thing anyone recommends to Mac users any more, and in #haskell people seem to actively steer everyone away from the Platform in all its incarnations.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I think the time when the Platform release got held up for over a year waiting for "important ghc fixes" pretty much killed all relevance for the Platform as it currently exists. Maybe a reformulation and relaunch will help, but from here it looks pretty doomed/dead.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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