Difference between revisions of "Haskell Platform"

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The Haskell Platform is a single, standard Haskell development environment for everyone. It offers a set of blessed libraries and tools, to save you the task of picking and choosing which core Haskell libraries to use.

Learn more about the Haskell Platform ⇒

What's in the platform

See

the change log
the unofficial Versions Comparison Chart

Trouble shooting

The Haskell Platform project maintains a bug tracker and wiki site, which you can use to report problems, or request features:

Developers

For developers, there is a wiki page with project details:

Buttons

We have some buttons to let your friends know about the Haskell Platform.

Use this html in your site:

<a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/platform" ><img src="http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/icons/button-100.png"></a>

Use this html in your site:

<a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/platform" ><img src="http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/icons/button-64.png"></a>

SVG source for the button: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Image:Button.svg

Icons

Icons for the platform installer and desktop.

Legal

The cherry blossom image used in the 2011 HP release is licensed CC by tanakawho

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+{{HP}}
-[[Image:Platform.png|300px]]
+The Haskell Platform is a single, standard [[Haskell]] development environment for everyone. It offers a set of blessed libraries and tools, to save you the task of picking and choosing which core Haskell libraries to use.
-__NOTOC__
+[http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/contents.html Learn more about the Haskell Platform ⇒]
-The Haskell Platform (HP) is the name of the blessed, core library suite for Haskell. By taking the best libraries from the more than 1200 libraries of [http://hackage.haskell.org Hackage], it provides a comprehensive, stable and mature base for Haskell projects to work from.
+__TOC__
-See the [http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki Platform Issue Tracker] for further information.
-== Specification ==
+== What's in the platform ==
+See
-The platform is specified via a Cabal file:
+* the [http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/changelog.html change log]
+* the unofficial [http://sol.github.com/haskell-platform-versions-comparison-chart/ Versions Comparison Chart]
+== Trouble shooting ==
-* '''[http://code.haskell.org/haskell-platform/haskell-platform.cabal The Haskell Platform 2009.2.0] (beta) '''
+The Haskell Platform project maintains a bug tracker and wiki site, which you can use to report problems, or request features:
-The initial release targets, 2009.2.0
+* [http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/report/1 Known issues]
-* ghc-6.10.2
-* [http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/Library/VersionMatrix#PlatformPackages Classic Extra Libs]
+* [http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/newticket?summary=%3CProblem%3E&description=%3CDescribe%20the%20problem%3E&component=Platform Report a bug]
-* haddock, happy and alex
-* cabal-install and its dependencies.
+=== Developers ===
+For developers, there is a wiki page with project details:
-== Volunteers needed! ==
+* [http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ Developer's wiki]
-The platform requires installer developers, and distro maintainers, for every OS distro we care about. If you are able to help out on your system, please sign up to the mailing list, or drop by #ghc @ freenode.
+* [http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/ReleaseTimetable Release Timetable]
-== Resources ==
+== Buttons ==
+We have some buttons to let your friends know about the Haskell Platform.
-* [http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ Issue tracker and dev wiki]
-* [http://code.haskell.org/haskell-platform Darcs repository]: contains the meta-package and scripts for the generic unix tarball
-* [[/FAQ]]
-* [http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform Mailing list]
-* IRC channel: #ghc @ freenode.org
-* [http://www.galois.com/blog/2009/03/23/one-million-haskell-downloads/ Download statistics for Haskell Packages]
+[http://hackage.haskell.org/platform http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/icons/button-100.png]
+Use this html in your site:
-== Documentation ==
+<code>
-* [http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/papers/CPJS08.html Haskell: Batteries Included], position paper by Don, Duncan and Isaac.
+<nowiki>
-* [http://blog.well-typed.com/2008/11/haskell-platform-talk-at-the-london-haskell-users-group/ Slides from the Haskell Platform talk]
+<a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/platform"
-* [http://blog.well-typed.com/2008/09/hackage-hacking-and-demo/ Haskell Platform discussion]
+><img src="http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/icons/button-100.png"></a>
-* Bryan O'Sullivan's [http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2008/09/26/some-notes-on-the-future-of-haskell-and-fp/ writeup] of the future of Haskell discussion
+</nowiki>
-* [http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cvs.ghc/28062/focus=28807 A discussion] took place in June and July 2008 about the direction of the HLP.
+</code>
-* [http://haskell.org/~duncan/ghc/%23ghc-2008-07-16.log More occurred during the #ghc meeting]
+[http://hackage.haskell.org/platform http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/icons/button-64.png]
-== Distribution format ==
+Use this html in your site:
-* Source distribution
-* .tar.gz bundle compatible with extra-libs
-* Windows Installed
-* Native distro packages
+<code>
-The HP will be the first '''meta-package''' on hackage, that depends on the platform library set. With this,
+<nowiki>
+<a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/platform"
+><img src="http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/icons/button-64.png"></a>
+</nowiki>
+</code>
+SVG source for the button: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Image:Button.svg
-    cabal install haskell-platform
+=== Icons ===
-will be possible.
+Icons for the platform installer and desktop.
-== Licenses ==
+[http://ireneknapp.com/himitsu/Platform-100.png http://ireneknapp.com/himitsu/Platform-100.png]
-The initial release is expected to include only BSD3 licensed software.
+[http://ireneknapp.com/himitsu/Platform-64.png http://ireneknapp.com/himitsu/Platform-64.png]
-== Programs ==
+=== Legal ===
-The platform includes programs, such as haddock or cabal-install.
-These aren't nicely tracked from the cabal meta package yet.
+* The cherry blossom image used in the 2011 HP release is [http://www.flickr.com/photos/28481088@N00/3291086383/ licensed CC by tanakawho]
-== Related projects ==
-* [http://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html Python libraries]
-* [http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning Gnome's release process]
-* [http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/ModuleProposing How to propose modules for GNOME]
-* [http://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/batteries/ OCaml Batteries]
-== Developers ==
-Haskell Platform infrastructure team:
-* Duncan Coutts (Well Typed)
-* Don Stewart (Galois)
-[[Category:Community]]