On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 3:45 AM, Roman Cheplyaka <roma@ro-che.info> wrote:
on, I don't care about HP. The only time when I remember about it is when I tell novices how they can "install Haskell". But again, this has nothing to do with the bundled cabal packages, only with the way of installing ghc/cabal/etc.
This points out at least one other benefit of HP: it provides a larger set of libraries for people learning Haskell to get started with before having to learn how to deal with cabal and the possibilities of cabal hell. It may be that this isn't real - that the recent and good or popular tutorials all work fine with just GHC, in which case ignore me. On the other hand, if they all deal with cabal at one point or another, possibly HP needs better curation: audit what's there to make sure it's the best choice, drop things that aren't useful, expand it to include critical libraries that are required by the tutorials, etc. <mike