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Ganesh Sittampalam ganesh at earth.li
Sun Aug 28 22:17:27 UTC 2016


+1 - that seems like the simplest way of preserving the existing intention.

On 27/08/2016 06:05, Adam Foltzer wrote:
> +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
> <mailto: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
>     <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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