Add ghcup www, design from rustup #78
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Honestly I don't see what it means to say "ghcup is an official Haskell project". Like, haskell.org hosts it now sure, so you could note that. But even ghc isn't an "official Haskell project" -- unlike rust there's no body (including the haskell.org committee) in a position to make such designations :-) Perhaps it could just say "ghcup is hosted by haskell.org". Also, I visited from a mac and it said "You appear to be running Unix." Which, I guess, isn't exactly wrong, but nonetheless. It would maybe be better to say "Unix or OS X" or the like? And finally, the "other installation options" should link to the downloads page, even though it remains a mess. The platform page now just recommends ghcup for linux (and will probably soon do so for os x) so it'll create a link cycle. |
I find that a bit confusing. It's like guessing :) The js code is able to detect this, but what is the value of this distinction? It's a unix-like system, we probably have POSIX and that's all we need to know... |
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I also noticed the page looks funny if JS is disabled in the browser. |
Sure its all we need to know, but it would be confusing to many users, who really don't think of OS X as a unix, and hence would be confused by text saying they were running unix, and perhaps think that there was a mistake. |
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Maybe just mirror Rustup and say "It looks like you’re running macOS, Linux, or another Unix-like OS." (or keep the "You appear to be running" start). |
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Should be all fixed now. |
Piece of useless esoterica: from all mentioned OS in the commit, Mac OS is the only one that can be called UNIX® (because it's UNIX® certified™). |
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@gbaz people have been raising concerns about the visibility of the page https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/b4kcfg/ghcup_homepage_now_at_haskellorg/ej9karl/?context=3 At least https://www.haskell.org/platform/#linux-generic should probably point to the new homepage now. |
Already uploaded for testing: https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/