From thomasmiedema at gmail.com  Tue Jul 12 14:07:38 2016
From: thomasmiedema at gmail.com (Thomas Miedema)
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:07:38 +0200
Subject: [Haskell-community] Request for comment: New haskell.org
	download page
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Hello Haskell.org committee,

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 7:20 AM, John Wiegley <johnw at newartisans.com> wrote:

> The plan is to add Stack to the Platform, and render the Platform minimal,
> which will

consolidate this page down to a single, recommended download path.
>

The Haskell Platform includes Stack now, and comes in a minimal variant,
but the downloads page [1] still lists 3 different download options (4 if
you count platform classic). Do you still plan to recommend just a single
download path at some point?

Thanks,
Thomas

[1] https://www.haskell.org/downloads
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From ekmett at gmail.com  Tue Jul 12 16:03:50 2016
From: ekmett at gmail.com (Edward Kmett)
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 12:03:50 -0400
Subject: [Haskell-community] Request for comment: New haskell.org
	download page
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 <CAD3WKgjhL-mmmWvc-aNabdFFqAWDX1E+aRkGgmjAJuhj6mfUvg@mail.gmail.com>
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There was some discussion within the committee of dropping the minimal installers from the page the other day. However, stack-only does appear to remain a fairly popular download option. I feel if we ever hope to heal the haskell-lang rift that removing the stack option at this time would be actively harmful.

-Edward

> On Jul 12, 2016, at 10:07 AM, Thomas Miedema <thomasmiedema at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello Haskell.org committee,
> 
>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 7:20 AM, John Wiegley <johnw at newartisans.com> wrote:
>> The plan is to add Stack to the Platform, and render the Platform minimal, which will
>> consolidate this page down to a single, recommended download path.
> 
> The Haskell Platform includes Stack now, and comes in a minimal variant, but the downloads page [1] still lists 3 different download options (4 if you count platform classic). Do you still plan to recommend just a single download path at some point?
> 
> Thanks,
> Thomas
> 
> [1] https://www.haskell.org/downloads
> 
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