[Haskell-community] Request for comment: New haskell.org download page

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Boespflug, Mathieu <m at tweag.io> writes:

> Without the tradeoffs explained pithily at the top, as as new user, I go the
> downloads page and I see that e.g. HP gives me plenty that I probably want.
> Sounds good to me! :) The page tells me that Stack gives me "the capacity to
> download and install" the same thing too, rather than that happening
> out-of-the-box. That doesn't sound very compelling. Why wouldn't I want
> everything just there from the get-go? Turns out there are good reasons why
> at this point you probably _don't_ want to be using the HP if you want to
> hack on multiple projects at once, reason being simply that HP assumes all
> projects can make do with a shared instance of the exact same versions of
> the libraries and tools that it ships with, when this assumption does not
> hold true in practice (again, in the future this may change).

Ok, you and Simon have a good point, we need more readily visible guidance on
choice selection. I'll try to incorporate your changes as briefly as I can.

John