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Distribution of Haskell with batteries included
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Mention that Haskell Platform is no longer the recommended way to install Haskell #349

Closed tomjaguarpaw closed 2 years ago

tomjaguarpaw commented 2 years ago

Old Haskell resources still mention "Haskell Platform" as the way to install Haskell. It seems to be confusing when they search for "Haskell Platform" and just end up at the new downloads page. We have an issue to mitigate that on the Haskell.org side.

On the other hand, some searches end up at this Github repository, for example see a recent user report. Perhaps we could short circuit their confusing by mentioning prominently in the README that the Platform is no longer supported, and linking them to the downloads page instead.

gbaz commented 2 years ago

I edited the readme along the suggested lines.