On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 3:01 AM, Simon Peyton Jones
I notice that in the new Haskell pages, the Platform is definitely not the recommended way to go:
Like Richard, I was astonished by this. I always thought that the Haskell Platform was *the* route of choice to install GHC, together with a respectable set of libraries. It’s certainly what I install on a new machine!
I do too...! But follow the new Haskell.org pages like you are a user "just want to install Haskell"... you'll never end up with the Platform. It looks like the Platform deprecated on the Haskell.org site for Linux and OS X in June https://github.com/haskell-infra/hl/commit/4ecad2973c162194cf038fd35769df028..., and for Windows in Jan https://github.com/haskell-infra/hl/commit/6277ba664b4ac83deda54624e7cfa2ec1... . *Infrastructure team:* Was there a discussion and decision to do that somewhere? Let’s not forget the large but non-vocal set of ill-informed and/or
would-be users, who want a simple answer to “How do I install GHC?”. It may be that the HP formula needs re-visiting, but I think it’s very important that we continue to give a very simple (click here) answer to that question.
As evidenced by yourself, and those that spoke up here, there is also a vocal, well-informed set of users who want such a thing as well.