[Haskell-community] Downloads page & Haskell for Mac

[Gershom B]

I've put together a "Distributions" page on the Haskell wiki, with the
goal that the Downloads section of haskell.org can point to it:

https://wiki.haskell.org/Distributions

Anyone with any ideas on things to add, text to improve, or other
cleanup should definitely have at editing it :-)

Additionally, it would be good to whip the IDE page into much cleaner
shape so we can link to it as well, if anyone wants to tackle that:

https://wiki.haskell.org/IDEs

Relatedly, it occurs to me that we should do something about that
"Libraries" Section of the "Downloads" page. Do we want a top level
"Libraries" page on haskell.org that also embeds e.g. some search
boxes (for say hoogle, hayoo, and hackage) and can be more
comprehensive? That would certainly feel cleaner to me...

Also, I have a nagging question about how we can feature ghcjs
somewhere, since it is very much "another haskell distribution" in
some interesting sense. Any proposals for where it fits would be
welcome.

Cheers,
Gershom

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Manuel M T Chakravarty
<chak at justtesting.org> wrote:
>> Gershom B <gershomb at gmail.com>:
>> On November 10, 2015 at 6:13:27 AM, Manuel M T Chakravarty (chak at justtesting.org) wrote:
>>
>>>> In our "third party downloads" section, we could add a link to a page targeted
>>>> specifically at beginners, with Haskell for Mac as a prominent member of the
>>>> "Mac" section on that page. Would that suffice?
>>>
>>> Is there a ”third party downloads” section at the moment?
>>>
>>
>> Nope, but the proposal is to create one. People have been rather busy but ideally a draft such section should be sent out by the end of this week? Or rather, the proposal is to create a small one, and use it to point to a page on e.g. the haskell wiki that is more organized and comprehensive, but such a page also needs to be created.
>>
>>> As I wrote above, I think, the main page should have a single option with a menu (or list)
>>> of alternative categories. I don’t think ”third party” is a good label, though. Good
>>> UI design takes the perspective of the user and presents choices in terms of the information
>>> that the user possesses (and is able to use for meaningful choices).
>>
>> I agree that “third party” is not a good label. Do you have a better suggestion? “Other installers and distributions”?
>
> If you do insist on having just one label, then ”Other installers and distributions” is certainly better than ”third party”. However, it would be better to have a few links with meaningful labels at this point — e.g., ”IDEs”, ”Native package managers”, ”Command line installers” and so forth.
>
> Manuel
>