Re: [Haskell-community] Request for comment: New haskell.org download page

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Boespflug, Mathieu writes:

Without the tradeoffs explained pithily at the top, as as new user, I go the downloads page and I see that e.g. HP gives me plenty that I probably want. Sounds good to me! :) The page tells me that Stack gives me "the capacity to download and install" the same thing too, rather than that happening out-of-the-box. That doesn't sound very compelling. Why wouldn't I want everything just there from the get-go? Turns out there are good reasons why at this point you probably _don't_ want to be using the HP if you want to hack on multiple projects at once, reason being simply that HP assumes all projects can make do with a shared instance of the exact same versions of the libraries and tools that it ships with, when this assumption does not hold true in practice (again, in the future this may change).

Ok, you and Simon have a good point, we need more readily visible guidance on choice selection. I'll try to incorporate your changes as briefly as I can. John