I&#39;m all for making HP the default as long as we find a way to make some of the larger packages (I&#39;m thinking gtk2hs) either ship with HP in Windows or install correctly with HP.<div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Joe Fredette <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jfredett@gmail.com">jfredett@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I think it makes sense, the HP is supposed to set up the entire environment needed for typical haskell development (at least, that is my understanding). As such, what&#39;s the point in making downloading haskell mean downloading a single _peice_ of haskell (GHC) only to have to download _everything else anyway_ (cabal-et-al, various &quot;standard&quot; libraries, etc).<br>

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Perhaps we could put it to some kind of community vote.<br><font color="#888888">
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/Joe</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On Dec 3, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Don Stewart wrote:<br>
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vandijk.roel:<br>
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On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Gregory Crosswhite<br>
&lt;<a href="mailto:gcross@phys.washington.edu" target="_blank">gcross@phys.washington.edu</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
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On a more serious note, &quot;Download Haskell&quot; /= &quot;Download Haskell Platform&quot;, so if I were glancing down the sidebar looking for a link to download the &quot;Haskell Platform&quot; then the first link wouldn&#39;t have registered for me.  And putting a &quot;X has been released link!&quot; in the news does not count as a prominent download link.<br>

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If I wanted to know something *about* the *Haskell Platform* I would<br>
click the link The Haskell Platform under the section About. So it is<br>
actually mentioned 3 times on the front page. What could be improved<br>
are the 2 download links: &quot;Download Haskell&quot; and &quot;Download GHC&quot;. It<br>
would perhaps be better to have one nice big &quot;Download&quot; button that<br>
takes you to a separate download page.<br>
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Having a single download link that only points to the Haskell Platform<br>
would be a bit of a policy shift. Is the community ready to accept that<br>
users looking for &quot;Haskell&quot; should be given the HP binaries?<br>
<br>
If so, I can change it to have a single &quot;Download&quot; button. Though it<br>
might be preferable to do that after the next release (the first<br>
non-beta release).<br>
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-- Don<br>
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