<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Stuart,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> I'll give a strong vote for "stack" as well</div><div class=""> - it also has the very nice property where it identfifies errors in the associated project cabal file</div><div class="">and gives correct suggestions for fixing them - it has made my life infinitely easier of late</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">PS - I teach Haskell at university level...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers, Andrew </div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 24 Aug 2017, at 02:25, Harendra Kumar <<a href="mailto:harendra.kumar@gmail.com" class="">harendra.kumar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi Stuart,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am not sure if there is a unanimous preferred way of installing Haskell. I guess the answer depends on who you ask. My preferred choice is "stack". I am no university prof or a school teacher but I do teach Haskell to my 6th grader and 2nd grader kids. I gave them a laptop (Mac OS) and told them how to install "stack" and they did it in a jiffy. They have been using it for several months with no complaints whatsoever. If little kids can do it I guess it should not be a problem for univ students.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have also been using stack myself for my professional work and it resonates well with my own thinking of how a package (and language tools) manager should behave. Additionally the stack team is very responsive if you want to get something fixed. When I started learning Haskell a few years ago I really enjoyed contributing to stack thanks to Michael Sloan's quick responses and encouraging feedback on the PRs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-harendra</div><div class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 August 2017 at 22:16, Stuart A. Kurtz <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:stuart@cs.uchicago.edu" target="_blank" class="">stuart@cs.uchicago.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear Colleagues,<br class="">
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What's the status of the Haskell Platform? Is it still the/a preferred way to install a working Haskell system? What is the update status of the Platform? [I note that the platform is at 8.0.2, whereas GHC is at 8.2.1, so I'm really asking if there's a roadmap/timeline for updates.]<br class="">
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I write because I teach an introductory class in Haskell, and we've long used the Platform as a way to get the system up and running on the student's systems. I'm at a quarter school, but I have to think this is a sharp question for anyone trying to teach a Haskell course at a semester school.<br class="">
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Is the Platform still the best way to do this? Will cabal continue to be a reasonable choice as default package manager?<br class="">
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Thank you for your consideration.<br class="">
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Peace,<br class="">
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Stu<br class="">
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