[Haskell-community] haskell.org download page

[Gershom B]

And... before I had the chance to pull something together, someone
else jumped in and made this very nice proposal on the website
tracker:

https://github.com/haskell-infra/hl/issues/176

That seems like a good basis for discussion :-)

(Note that this presupposes is to renaming minimal to the Haskell
Toolchain, as per the discussion at
https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/issues/250)

--Gershom

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Gershom B <gershomb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On August 30, 2016 at 6:23:36 AM, Simon Marlow (marlowsd at gmail.com) wrote:
>> > Can't we get rid of HP Full? I don't see a use for that any more.
>
> I think it can be removed from a prominent spot in the downloads page. There are a variety of cases where people still seem to prefer it for some settings (especially those which may have limited ongoing network access), despite being warned that it is not typically recommended, so I think it makes sense to continue to provide it in some fashon, albeit less prominent, for the time being.
>
> If I can scrape the time together today I’ll try to pull together some text for the whole downloads page to propose here for feedback, trying to take this discussion into account.
>
> —Gershom