<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 3:01 AM, Simon Peyton Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com" target="_blank">simonpj@microsoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">I notice that in the new Haskell pages, the Platform is definitely not the recommended way to go:
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</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Like Richard, I was astonished by this. I always thought that the Haskell Platform was
<b><i>the</i></b> route of choice to install GHC, together with a respectable set of libraries. It’s certainly what I install on a new machine!</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>It looks like the Platform deprecated on the Haskell.org site for Linux and OS X <a href="https://github.com/haskell-infra/hl/commit/4ecad2973c162194cf038fd35769df02871f64f7">in June</a>, and for Windows <a href="https://github.com/haskell-infra/hl/commit/6277ba664b4ac83deda54624e7cfa2ec1b489c3a#diff-1d72a4aea33e339bb22dd20b5968644d">in Jan</a>.</div><div><b>Infrastructure team:</b> Was there a discussion and decision to do that somewhere?</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-GB" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div></div></div></div>