[Haskell-cafe] RFC: removing “alternative installation methods” from haskell.org (or finding them owners)

[Tom Ellis]

On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 11:19:01PM +0300, Gleb Popov wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 2, 2022 at 9:51 PM Tom Ellis <
> tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2017 at jaguarpaw.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > The Haskell.org committee is considering removing the "alternative
> > installation options" section from the [downloads page of
> > haskell.org](https://www.haskell.org/downloads/) and we seek the
> > opinion of the community. If you would like to share your opinion we
> > prefer that you do so [on the haskell.org issue
> > tracker](https://github.com/haskell-infra/www.haskell.org/issues/170),
> > but failing that, in this email thread is fine too.
> >
> > ### Background
> >
> > The [downloads page of
> > haskell.org](https://www.haskell.org/downloads/) suggests using ghcup
> > and stack to obtain a toolchain. These two tools are widely used in
> > the community, actively maintained and kept up-to-date. The page also
> > provides a number of "alternative installation options" (see below, or
> > on the page itself, for the list).
> >
> 
> Huh, why does this page say
> 
> > To install stack, follow the instructions here (N.B. stack does not
> support FreeBSD)
> 
> ?
> 
> Stack works on FreeBSD just fine for a long time.

I took the decision to make that claim following the (lack of)
discussion at

https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/5674

If the claim is wrong perhaps you could add some commentary to that
ticket.  N.B. as reported by Julian Ospald the 'curl | sh' in the
Stack Install/ugrade guide[1] doesn't work on FreeBSD.  How are
FreeBSD users supposed to install it?

Tom



[1] https://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/install_and_upgrade/