Malcolm Wallace wrote:
The suggestion was to have a single Download button, leading to a *page* of suitably described links, allowing the user to choose whether they only wanted the basics (a choice of compiler/interpreter + cabal), or the whole Platform, or something else. It would be the ideal place to explain what cabal is and how to use hackage to get more libraries than are contained in the platform. It would perhaps reduce the clutter on the front page that some people complained of (although I don't personally think it cluttered).
It seems I'm contraversial even when I'm trying to be uncontraversial. :-} Anyway, the above suggestion sounds most optimal to me. Haskell tends to suffer from a frustrating degree of "information dragmentation" (I love whoever came up with that term...), and collecting a bunch of information in one place like this sounds very useful. I guess in a way, the current "implementations" page could become this page (or this new page makes the existing implementations page obsolete...) I also think it might be worth mentioning HP from the GHC homepage, just in case anybody has that bookmarked directly...