haskell-platform VS tilapia

The original link http://www.haskell.org/platform/ does redirect to the downloads page, but http://www.haskell.org/platform (without the slash) doesn't. Still, I think it's probably better to make it explicit to visitors that the Platform is deprecated in favour of the Downloads page: https://github.com/haskell-infra/www.haskell.org/pull/167

The link for the official page (http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/) gives you a 404 error and every other link (including those on the official Haskell Platform Github https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform) leads you to the generic downloads page on the official website which has absolutely no hint about Haskell Platform.

If you plan to try some of the examples, I would highly recommend setting up Haskell locally on your machine. You can follow this guide to download and set up ghc and ghci, we will use ghci for all examples.

Why does the haskell platform (https://www.haskell.org/platform/ ) require it in order to install the IDE?

As for GHC, check out this page for step-by-step explanations of installation. Personally I think it's much easier to set this up on linux compared to windows. I use Ubuntu WSL2 on Windows, this avoids a lot of the trouble.

Is it about the time to redirect the "Download Haskell" link in the right sidebar here from https://www.haskell.org/platform/ to https://www.haskell.org/downloads/?

If you save the sliced model as x3g (default for FFCP) and you get an empty file, follow the steps described in this issue to install the required libraries: https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/issues/231#issuecomment-177530716

Perhaps the documentation for Char should contain examples of how you write the literals. Tracking as https://github.com/tomjaguarpaw/tilapia/issues/128

Can you please report concrete examples here: https://github.com/tomjaguarpaw/tilapia/issues/new

I'll do what I can to improve the situation, but I need to know which packages precisely you are talking about.

Thanks! Tracking at https://github.com/tomjaguarpaw/tilapia/issues/109

It would be nice with a "modern cabal for stack users" tutorial (ddg tells me it's an issue https://github.com/tomjaguarpaw/tilapia/issues/11 ), answering questions like

If you're on Windows and you're feeling brave you could try these new instructions developed by a collaborator of mine over at the tilapia project. If anything goes wrong with those instructions then please put a message on the pull request describing what the problem was and we'll try to get it fixed.

Great! I'd be happy to have you on board. Please "Watch" the repo so that you are notified of discussions that happen there. Feel free to start your own discussions at any time by opening an issue.

Feel free to collaborate with me on Tilapia. At the very least I would welcome knowing about your ideas.

I also have a personal project (tilapia) for tracking difficulties in the Haskell ecosystem. Feel free to post any observations, questions or difficulties there.