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 official Haskell Platform Changelog.

Trouble shooting

Report bugs on GitHub: Haskell Platform Issues.

Developers

New Haskell Platform Wiki
Old Trac wiki

Buttons

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

Use this html in your site:

<a href="http://haskell.org/platform"> <img src="http://raw.githubusercontent.com/haskell/haskell-platform/master/website/icons/button-100.png"></a>

Use this html in your site:

<a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/platform"> <img src="http://raw.githubusercontent.com/haskell/haskell-platform/master/website/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}}
-'''Haskell: Batteries Included'''
-The Haskell Platform (HP) is the name of a new "blessed" library suite on which to build further Haskell libraries and applications, by taking the best libraries from the nearly 800 libraries of [http://hackage.haskell.org]. It provides a comprehensive, stable and quality tested base for Haskell projects to work from.
+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.
+[http://haskell.org/platform/contents.html Learn more about the Haskell Platform ⇒]
-[[Image:Small-package-bubbles.png]] [[Image:Haskell-graph.png]]
+__TOC__
-More generally, if we want tools as well as libraries, then the simpler name
-''Haskell Platform'' may be more appropriate than the original name ''Haskell Library Platform''.
+== What's in the platform ==
-There are now around 800 libraries available for Haskell,  on
-[http://hackage.haskell.org hackage]. Choosing which libraries to
-support on a distro is currently done on an ad hoc basis, with
-significant variation from one distribution to another.
+See the official [http://www.haskell.org/platform/changelog.html Haskell Platform Changelog].
-The goal of the Haskell Platform is to provide a comprehensive, reliable base of libraries on which Haskell programmers can build anything they may wish. It should supply a significant percent of the dependencies required to build everything on hackage.haskell.org, and have a clear process for moving forward.
-== Developers ==
+== Trouble shooting ==
-Haskell Platform core team:
+Report bugs on GitHub:
-* Duncan Coutts (Well Typed)
+[https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/issues Haskell Platform Issues].
-* Don Stewart (Galois)
-== Resources ==
+=== Developers ===
-* [http://code.haskell.org/haskell-platform Haskell Platform project repository].
-* [http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ Project bug tracker]
+* New [https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/wiki/ Haskell Platform Wiki]
-== Documentation ==
+* Old [http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ Trac wiki]
+== Buttons ==
-* [http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/blog/2008/07/29#batteries The Haskell Platform Proposal] for the 2008 Haskell Symposium
+We have some buttons to let your friends know about the Haskell Platform.
-* [http://blog.well-typed.com/2008/09/slides-from-the-haskell-platform-talk/ Slides from the Haskell Platform talk]
+[http://haskell.org/platform http://raw.githubusercontent.com/haskell/haskell-platform/master/website/icons/button-100.png]
-* [http://blog.well-typed.com/2008/09/hackage-hacking-and-demo/ Haskell Platform discussion]
+Use this html in your site:
-* 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
+<code>
-* [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.
+<nowiki>
+<a href="http://haskell.org/platform">
+<img src="http://raw.githubusercontent.com/haskell/haskell-platform/master/website/icons/button-100.png"></a>
+</nowiki>
+</code>
+[http://haskell.org/platform http://raw.githubusercontent.com/haskell/haskell-platform/master/website/icons/button-64.png]
-* [http://haskell.org/~duncan/ghc/%23ghc-2008-07-16.log More occurred during the #ghc meeting]
+Use this html in your site:
-===Quality Control===
+<code>
-* cabal-installable libraries with haddocks.
+<nowiki>
+<a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/platform">
+<img src="http://raw.githubusercontent.com/haskell/haskell-platform/master/website/icons/button-64.png"></a>
+</nowiki>
+</code>
+SVG source for the button: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Image:Button.svg
-* The set of HP packages + core libs must be closed. That is all haskell dependencies must be from within the HP packages or core libs. Dependencies on C libs can be external.
-* All packages in a particular HP version must have a consistent install plan.
-  That means only one version of each package and all dependencies on packages must be satisfied by the version in the HP package set.
+=== Icons ===
-There is code in cabal-install to check the last two requirements.
+Icons for the platform installer and desktop.
-Other possible ideas for quality standards we might want to require:
+[[Image:Platform-100.png]]
-* exposed module names must follow the hierarchical module name convention, meaning they must be in an appropriate place in the module namespace. In particular, no clash of module names should occur within the HP.
+[[Image:Platform-64.png]]
-=== Other heuristics ===
-Packages set for inclusion should:
+=== Legal ===
-* Have a maintainer
-* Have a bug tracker
-* Use the correct versioning
-* Build with cabal
-* Work on all arches.
+* The cherry blossom image used in the 2011 HP release is [http://www.flickr.com/photos/28481088@N00/3291086383/ licensed CC by tanakawho]
-Further goals:
-* -Wall clean
-* 100% coverage
-* Have real world use.
-* Answer a notable set of build dependencies.
+[[Category:HaskellPlatform]]
-== Distribution format ==
-* Source distribution
-* .tar.gz bundle compatible with extra-libs
-* Windows Installed
-* Native distro packages
-The HP can be a meta package on hackage.haskell.org, that simply
-depends on the core set.
-    cabal install haskell-platform
-should work, for example.
-Beyond this, we'll need a why to provide single tarballs of the set,
-windows installers et al. Will GHC need cabal-install?
-== HLP: Batteries Included==
-[[/Batteries_Included]]
-== Tools ==
-Language-processing tools should probably also be considered to be part of the platform.  Commonly-needed tools include:
-* ghc
-* happy
-* alex
-* haddock
-* cpphs
-* cabal-install (now known simply as cabal?)
-What else might we consider?
-* DrIFT or derive
-* throw in another compiler - e.g. Hugs?
-* c2hs
-* hsc2hs
-== Related ==
-* [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://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/ocaml-batteries-included-release-0-where-it-should-all-have-begun/ OCaml Batteries]
-[[Category:Community]]