Beta version of the new HP site

Simon Peyton-Jones simonpj at microsoft.com
Mon Mar 22 13:00:40 EDT 2010


ah i see.  but Chromes says "Download a fast free web browser, and amplifies that some: screenshot, fast startup, fast loading, fast search"

But a "development environment" might mean an IDE like Visual Studio.  Saying a bit more, such as this (below) would, I think, be helpful.

- An integrated set of Haskell tools: 
	- Compiler (GHC)
	- Lexer and parser generators (Happy, Alex)
	- Documentation generation (Haddock) 
	- Rich set of libraries (see here<link> for details)
	- Cabal installer for one-stop library management
	- ...items for coverage, profiling, etc....
- All quality-controlled, mutually compatible, and pre-compiled

- Community supported and released regularly (timetable<link>)


| -----Original Message-----
| From: libraries-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:libraries-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf
| Of Don Stewart
| Sent: 22 March 2010 13:00
| To: Chris Eidhof
| Cc: Haskell-platform at community.haskell.org; libraries at haskell.org
| Subject: Re: Beta version of the new HP site
| 
| I like it :)
| 
| But I based it on what chrome does: o
| 
|     http://www.google.com/chrome
| 
| to give some sense of what the page is for if you're not already
| familiar.
| 
| chris:
| > I don't think I'll have time soon to work on this.
| >
| > I do want to note that, in the original design, we left out as much as possible on
| purpose. For example, I don't like the text on the rhs. If people want to know more,
| they'll click on "Learn more...". I don't think it adds a lot of value. What do you
| guys think?
| >
| > -chris
| >
| > On 21 mrt 2010, at 03:40, Gregory Collins wrote:
| >
| > > Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> writes:
| > >
| > >> gale:
| > >>>> http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/new/
| > >>>	
| > >>> The link for Mac is a direct download of a disk image to
| > >>> install the platform.
| > >>>
| > >>> That will work on *every* reasonable Mac?
| > >>> Let's say, every Mac that is currently officially
| > >>> supported by Apple? Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard?
| > >>> Intel and PowerPC?
| > >>>
| > >>> If not, then that link must go to a landing page with
| > >>> a choice of what to do, like for Linux.
| > >>>
| > >>> Same comment for Windows. Are XP, Vista, and Windows 7
| > >>> all supported? No other "gotchas"?
| > >>
| > >> The plan (for tomorrow) is to have download pages for each distro,
| > >> rather than just a direct link.
| > >>
| > >> That way we can also suggest, e.g. the macports build.
| > >
| > > The link to my build should be clearly labeled as being for Leopard
| > > (10.5) and above, it won't work for Tiger (10.4) or lower.
| > >
| > > G
| > > --
| > > Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net>
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| >
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