[Haskell-community] haskell.org download page

Adam Foltzer acfoltzer at gmail.com
Sat Aug 27 05:05:49 UTC 2016


+1

Since the HP Minimal fits such a similar niche, perhaps we could adapt the
existing minimal installer language in-place to point to HP Minimal, rather
than removing it. Then we could modify the existing HP section in-place to
clarify that it refers to HP Full.

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 9:50 PM, Jason Dagit <dagitj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I just realized that the Minimal installer listed first on the Downloads
> page (https://www.haskell.org/downloads) is deprecated and "dead". This
> creates an unfortunate situation where our top suggested way to get haskell
> immediately tells the user it's dead.
>
> I think that we should remove mention of the minimal installer ASAP on the
> grounds that the HP now comes in minimal and full variants.
>
> Furthermore, I would like to make the recommendation that we list the HP
> above other methods as even the minimal HP installer ships with stack (at
> least on windows it does).
>
> Between the two changes, I think the first one is crucial and the second
> one is merely reasonable.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
>
>
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