Please stay on topic, this is *not* a discussion about Haskell Platform[1], it's a discussion on ArchHaskell[2]. Please read up on the mailing list archives first, and then, if you still feel there's a need to discuss HP in ArchHaskell (which isn't the same thing as Arch itself) then please start a new thread.
/M [1]: http://www.haskell.org/platform/ [2]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ArchHaskell On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Magnus Therning <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Now I'm going to run the risk of upsetting you quite a bit by being >> completely blunt. > > > Indeed. > >> >> You come across in your mail like someone who has thought through your >> own situation, but fail to see the larger picture. You do know *your* > > > May I ask you a question, then? > > Does the Haskell Platform have any reason to exist? > > Supposedly, the Haskell community backs the Haskell Platform as the way that > most users should be using the Platform. Yet we have here a vendor platform > which does not support it, and newcomers who notice this and question it are > chastised for not thinking about the needs of other people. This suggests > that the Haskell Platform is unimportant and perhaps disruptive to some > significant group of people... is this so? > > And then, looking at your own message, I must ask: have you considered that > the Platform is aimed at the great many people who do not have large amounts > of expertise maintaining their own personal Haskell ecosystem. Or are your > needs so important that these people must in fact be told to deal? > > Or, to phrase in your own words: > >> You come across in your mail like someone who has thought through your >> own situation, but fail to see the larger picture. > > > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates > [email protected] [email protected] > unix/linux, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure http://sinenomine.net > -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: [email protected] jabber: [email protected] twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus _______________________________________________ arch-haskell mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-haskell
