[Haskell-cafe] When did it become so hard to install Haskell on Windows?

[Irfon-Kim Ahmad]

This must be a recent development, because I installed Haskell using the 
"self-contained, all-in-one installer" only a month or two ago. The page 
on haskell.org still talks about this: "The Haskell Platform is a 
self-contained, all-in-one installer. After download, you will have 
everything necessary to build Haskell programs against a core set of 
useful libraries." (That really should be edited to reflect the current 
state of affairs.)

On 2020-04-25 12:27 a.m., Richard O'Keefe wrote:
> I ran into the same 403 with HaskellStack.org,
> but using the "Cached" link that Google offered,
> the page that *should* be there has a link to a
> Windows 64-bit installer for stack, and stack is
> currently installing ghc-8.8.3 for me, although it
> warns that stack has not been tested with GHC
> versions about 8.6.
>
> The irony is that I ran stack.exe from an Ubuntu 18
> shell.
>
> On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 at 15:24, José Pedro Magalhães <dreixel at gmail.com 
> <mailto:dreixel at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I haven't used Haskell in my personal computer in a while. I
>     decided to install it again. I used the Haskell Platform in the
>     past, so I went for that again - and a quick Google search on
>     "install haskell windows" brings up the HP page, so I thought I
>     was on the right track.
>
>     At the HP page for Windows, I'm greeted with this:
>     image.png
>
>     In the past I'd just download an installer which would take care
>     of things - now it seems to be more complicated. But fine, I
>     followed the link to configure Chocolatey. That's where it starts
>     getting really scary:
>     image.png
>
>     First, I have to subscribe to a newsletter? Really? I guess this
>     is entirely optional, but the instructions don't make it sound so.
>     Then I have to know what powershell.exe is, use an administrative
>     prompt, and enter scary commands in it.
>
>     I gave up at this stage. But going back to the HP page, it appears
>     that even this wouldn't be enough, because I would still need to
>     follow "the instructions at haskellstack.org
>     <http://haskellstack.org> to install stack". The link to
>     haskellstack.org <http://haskellstack.org> takes me to a 403
>     Forbidden <https://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/README/>.
>
>     I honestly don't want this to sound like a rant. I genuinely would
>     like to understand why this multi-step, multi-tool, multi-website
>     process was introduced, how it is superior to a single installer,
>     and whether this is really the process we want newcomers to the
>     language have to follow.
>
>
>     Thanks,
>     Pedro
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