On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 3:01 AM, Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj@microsoft.com> wrote:

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, and for Windows in Jan.

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.