I think you will find that the Original Poster did not ask about ArchHaskell,
but rather about Haskell on the Arch platform. He was completely unaware of
ArchHaskell as a project. This might be a source of some confusion, and help
to explain divergent attitudes.
Regards,
Malcolm
On 29 Oct 2012, at 14:41, Magnus Therning wrote:
> 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 <allber...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Magnus Therning <mag...@therning.org>
>> 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.
>>
>>
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>>
>
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