On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 6:08 AM, Yury Pachin <yuriy.pachin@gmail.com> wrote:
Haskell platform - bad idea.

Someone will have to explain to me why when the whole Haskell community considers cabal-install and the Platform --- supposedly *from* the community --- to be the works of the devil, you all haven't set out to rid the world of the evil incarnate that created them.

We will as always ignore or explain away little inconveniences, in favor of our preferred utter hatred.

Actually, there _has_ been a lot of effort to both fix the Haskell Platform and - in the interim - get it off of the main download page. For example:

https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-community/2015-September/000014.html

There was also a poll taken in response to a related thread on the community list:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1w2wKSxn5YN4LtSXYHvFT2IFw_BDaT_2cjUkP9pDeqLQ/viewanalytics

As you can see, the vast majority of the poll respondents wanted the HP to be the least recommended option on the page, and a number of comments said it should be done away with entirely.

Michael