As a beginner, I found Stack far and away the better solution. HP polluted my system, causing me problems it took me literally years to track down, even after I thought I deleted it. Even if it were to improve, I will never trust it again, and I think my sentiment is widespread. It's already confusing to have multiple download options and multiple webpages. At the moment, nothing beats "brew install haskell-stack" (for me, but not much more complicated to follow the instructions on the excellent Stack hp), so I don't see why you wouldn't just make that the one and only recommended installation method. Everyone is being steered away from HP, anyway, and I sort of wonder how many people who read this list are still using it themselves and not Stack?

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 11:00 AM Adam Foltzer <acfoltzer@gmail.com> wrote:
What about the backpack-related work?  Isn't cabal-install where the
user-facing CLI side of this work is most likely to be landed?

Backpack is also very exciting, indeed!

That being said, assuming the minimal installer variant get dropped from
downloads, where is downloads/linux going to move to, and how will it be
discoverable in future?

This a really important point.

Does anyone know if the distributions listed on the HP Linux page have packaged the minimal platform? As it is right now, it appears that Windows and Mac send you to a page where you can choose either, but Linux only provides instructions for Full except under the Generic option.

If distros start to package HP Minimal, I would propose replacing the Fedora and Arch instructions on downloads/linux with that, but we'll want to keep the Ubuntu instructions around due to your excellent PPA. I'm not sure how that should look concretely, though, given that it would essentially become a fourth option if HP Minimal replaces the current minimal installer section. 

 

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 4:35 AM, Francesco Ariis <fa-ml@ariis.it> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 10:05:49PM -0700, Adam Foltzer wrote:
> Since the HP Minimal fits such a similar niche, perhaps we could adapt the
> existing minimal installer language in-place to point to HP Minimal, rather
> than removing it. Then we could modify the existing HP section in-place to
> clarify that it refers to HP Full.

As having "deprecated" link in the download page is a no-no and warrants
a quick fix.

Adam Foltzer's proposal is the most simple to implement (well, I should
say "has the least friction in a hotly debated topic"), hence most
reasonable to me.

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