Re: [Haskell-cafe] Finding HP

On Dec 3, 2009, at 11:43 , Don Stewart wrote:

vandijk.roel:

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On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Gregory Crosswhite wrote:

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On a more serious note, "Download Haskell" /= "Download Haskell Platform", so if I were glancing down the sidebar looking for a link to download the "Haskell Platform" then the first link wouldn't have registered for me. And putting a "X has been released link!" in the news does not count as a prominent download link.

If I wanted to know something *about* the *Haskell Platform* I would click the link The Haskell Platform under the section About. So it is actually mentioned 3 times on the front page. What could be improved are the 2 download links: "Download Haskell" and "Download GHC". It would perhaps be better to have one nice big "Download" button that takes you to a separate download page.

Having a single download link that only points to the Haskell Platform would be a bit of a policy shift. Is the community ready to accept that users looking for "Haskell" should be given the HP binaries?

But that isn't the suggestion; I see nowhere a statement that the separate download page needs to only have the Haskell Platform. In fact, I suspect it would be good for the download page to provide both and suggest in user-friendly terms which one to download (which I suspect is still GHC for now, until the HP settles down a bit). -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH