On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 12:05:32AM -0500, Christopher Allen wrote:
Here are some quotes from end-users regarding Platform. This is just what I found on the web and from skimming IRC logs, it doesn't include many hundreds more of examples from IRC of new people _in particular_ getting stuck because they didn't understand they were conflicting with globally installed packages.
I won't comment on what the Haskell Platform should be / whether it achieves it, but it is very difficult to beat the convenience of: apt-get install hakskell-platform (or trusty installer on Windows). I recall my days as a Linux newbie and seeing something like this [1] [2] would have scared me a bit (Why should I run these commands? Won't adding a new repository be risky? What does 'add this to your $PATH' means?), while the HP provides you /instant/ access to everything you need to go through some Haskell entrée dishes (Learn you a Haskell and Real World Haskell). [1] https://www.haskell.org/downloads/linux [2] https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell/blob/master/install.md