[Haskell-community] Haskell Platform as the default recommendation considered harmful

[Francesco Ariis]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 12:05:32AM -0500, Christopher Allen wrote:
> Here are some quotes from end-users regarding Platform. This is just what I
> found on the web and from skimming IRC logs, it doesn't include many
> hundreds more of examples from IRC of new people _in particular_ getting
> stuck because they didn't understand they were conflicting with globally
> installed packages.

I won't comment on what the Haskell Platform should be / whether it
achieves it, but it is very difficult to beat the convenience of:

    apt-get install hakskell-platform

(or trusty installer on Windows). I recall my days as a Linux newbie
and seeing something like this [1] [2] would have scared me a bit (Why
should I run these commands? Won't adding a new repository be risky? What
does 'add this to your $PATH' means?), while the HP provides you
/instant/ access to everything you need to go through some Haskell
entrée dishes (Learn you a Haskell and Real World Haskell).


[1] https://www.haskell.org/downloads/linux
[2] https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell/blob/master/install.md

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