Seeking community input on change to Haskell.org Downloads page

The Haskell.org committee is considering a change to the [Haskell.org Downloads page]. The change is being reviewed in a [GitHub PR]. The specifics of the change are to replace Chocolatey with ghcup as the preferred installation method of GHC, cabal-install and haskell-language-server on Windows. The overall effect is that the install instructions become common over Windows, Linux and MacOS. The Chocolatey install method is mentioned further down the page. (The PR does not impinge on Stack. The Stack instructions remain unchanged.) The committee would welcome input from any interested parties, particularly those who have familiarity with Chocolatey, or ghcup on Windows, or both. You are welcome to comment on the [PR itself][GitHub PR] (or this thread if absolutely necessary). Thanks to @bodigrim for the PR. [Haskell.org Downloads page]: https://www.haskell.org/downloads/ [GitHub PR]: https://github.com/haskell-infra/www.haskell.org/pull/125

Go for it, absolute support of mine for that! Greets, Branimir.
On 02.10.2021., at 15:58, Tom Ellis
wrote: The Haskell.org committee is considering a change to the [Haskell.org Downloads page]. The change is being reviewed in a [GitHub PR].
The specifics of the change are to replace Chocolatey with ghcup as the preferred installation method of GHC, cabal-install and haskell-language-server on Windows. The overall effect is that the install instructions become common over Windows, Linux and MacOS. The Chocolatey install method is mentioned further down the page. (The PR does not impinge on Stack. The Stack instructions remain unchanged.)
The committee would welcome input from any interested parties, particularly those who have familiarity with Chocolatey, or ghcup on Windows, or both. You are welcome to comment on the [PR itself][GitHub PR] (or this thread if absolutely necessary).
Thanks to @bodigrim for the PR.
[Haskell.org Downloads page]: https://www.haskell.org/downloads/ [GitHub PR]: https://github.com/haskell-infra/www.haskell.org/pull/125 _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list To (un)subscribe, modify options or view archives go to: http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe Only members subscribed via the mailman list are allowed to post.

Am Sa., 2. Okt. 2021 um 15:59 Uhr schrieb Tom Ellis < tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2017@jaguarpaw.co.uk>:
The Haskell.org committee is considering a change to the [Haskell.org Downloads page]. The change is being reviewed in a [GitHub PR]. [...]
What's the current state of affairs regarding duplicate toolchains? If one follows the suggestions on the PR and installs most things via GHCup and installs stack separately, don't you download and install all GHC versions twice? IIRC, this was the case in the past, but I might be wrong. If that's still the case, some warnings about that might be appropriate on the download page, because this duplication would waste hundreds of GB on disk...

Am So., 3. Okt. 2021 um 15:44 Uhr schrieb Sven Panne
[...] this duplication would waste hundreds of GB on disk...
This should have been "MB" instead of "GB". GHC installations are big, but not *that* big. :-}
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Branimir Maksimovic
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Sven Panne
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Tom Ellis