[Haskell-cafe] GHC maintenance on Arch

[Magnus Therning]

Please stay on topic, this is *not* a discussion about Haskell
Platform[1], it's a discussion on ArchHaskell[2].  Please read up on
the mailing list archives first, and then, if you still feel there's a
need to discuss HP in ArchHaskell (which isn't the same thing as Arch
itself) then please start a new thread.

/M

[1]: http://www.haskell.org/platform/
[2]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ArchHaskell

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Now I'm going to run the risk of upsetting you quite a bit by being
>> completely blunt.
>
>
> Indeed.
>
>>
>> You come across in your mail like someone who has thought through your
>> own situation, but fail to see the larger picture.  You do know *your*
>
>
> May I ask you a question, then?
>
> Does the Haskell Platform have any reason to exist?
>
> Supposedly, the Haskell community backs the Haskell Platform as the way that
> most users should be using the Platform.  Yet we have here a vendor platform
> which does not support it, and newcomers who notice this and question it are
> chastised for not thinking about the needs of other people.  This suggests
> that the Haskell Platform is unimportant and perhaps disruptive to some
> significant group of people... is this so?
>
> And then, looking at your own message, I must ask:  have you considered that
> the Platform is aimed at the great many people who do not have large amounts
> of expertise maintaining their own personal Haskell ecosystem.  Or are your
> needs so important that these people must in fact be told to deal?
>
> Or, to phrase in your own words:
>
>> You come across in your mail like someone who has thought through your
>> own situation, but fail to see the larger picture.
>
>
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