As a beginner, I found Stack far and away the better solution. HP polluted my system, causing me problems it took me literally years to track down, even after I thought I deleted it. Even if it were to improve, I will never trust it again, and I think my sentiment is widespread. It's already confusing to have multiple download options and multiple webpages. At the moment, nothing beats "brew install haskell-stack" (for me, but not much more complicated to follow the instructions on the excellent Stack hp), so I don't see why you wouldn't just make that the one and only recommended installation method. Everyone is being steered away from HP, anyway, and I sort of wonder how many people who read this list are still using it themselves and not Stack?
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 11:00 AM Adam Foltzer <acfolt...@gmail.com> wrote: > What about the backpack-related work? Isn't cabal-install where the >> user-facing CLI side of this work is most likely to be landed? > > > Backpack is also very exciting, indeed! > > That being said, assuming the minimal installer variant get dropped from >> downloads, where is downloads/linux going to move to, and how will it be >> discoverable in future? > > > This a really important point. > > Does anyone know if the distributions listed on the HP Linux page have > packaged the minimal platform? As it is right now, it appears that Windows > and Mac send you to a page where you can choose either, but Linux only > provides instructions for Full except under the Generic option. > > If distros start to package HP Minimal, I would propose replacing the > Fedora and Arch instructions on downloads/linux with that, but we'll want > to keep the Ubuntu instructions around due to your excellent PPA. I'm not > sure how that should look concretely, though, given that it would > essentially become a fourth option if HP Minimal replaces the current > minimal installer section. > > > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 4:35 AM, Francesco Ariis <fa...@ariis.it> wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 10:05:49PM -0700, Adam Foltzer wrote: >> > 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. >> >> As having "deprecated" link in the download page is a no-no and warrants >> a quick fix. >> >> Adam Foltzer's proposal is the most simple to implement (well, I should >> say "has the least friction in a hotly debated topic"), hence most >> reasonable to me. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-community mailing list >> Haskell-community@haskell.org >> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-community >> > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-community mailing list > Haskell-community@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-community >
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