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Haskell Platform

The Haskell Platform is a set of software packages, tools, and libraries that create a common platform for using and developing applications in the programming language Haskell. With the Haskell Platform, Haskell follows the same principle as Python: "Batteries included". Since 2022, the Haskell Platform has been deprecated.

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Motivation

The quality of a programming language itself is only one component in the ability of application writers to get the job done. Programming languages can succeed or fail based on the breadth and quality of their library collection.3

The Haskell Platform aims to unify Haskell development tools into a single package, consisting of a compiler, compiling tools, and many standard libraries, thereby making it easier to develop and deploy full-featured Haskell-based applications.

Packages included

The last versions consist of:4

Deployment

It is available for Ubuntu,7 Arch Linux,89 FreeBSD,10 Gentoo Linux (x86-64 and x86),11 Fedora,12 Debian (stable)13 and NixOS. One-click installers exist for OS X14 (only Intel) and Microsoft Windows.15

Versions

Originally, in 2009, the Haskell Platform aimed at a periodic 6-month release cycle.16 Starting with 7.10.2 which was released July 29, 2015, it has followed the release cycle of GHC and has since used the same version numbering scheme.

Deprecation

In 2022, the Haskell Platform was deprecated, and is no longer an actively supported or recommended way of installing Haskell.17

References

  1. "Haskell: Batteries Included". Archived from the original on 2009-09-28. Retrieved 2010-04-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20090928111059/http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/papers/CPJS08.html ↩

  2. "Haskell Platform". https://www.haskell.org/platform/ ↩

  3. "Haskell: Batteries Included". Archived from the original on 2009-09-28. Retrieved 2010-04-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20090928111059/http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/papers/CPJS08.html ↩

  4. "Download Haskell Platform". Hackage.haskell.org. Retrieved 28 September 2018. http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/contents.html ↩

  5. "2.5. The GHCi Debugger". Archived from the original on 2011-03-03. Retrieved 2010-04-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20110303043848/http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/ghci-debugger.html ↩

  6. "Happy: The Parser Generator for Haskell". Haskell.org. Retrieved 28 September 2018. http://www.haskell.org/happy/ ↩

  7. "Ubuntu – Details of package haskell-platform in maverick". Archived from the original on 2010-10-31. Retrieved 2010-10-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20101031095746/http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/haskell-platform ↩

  8. "Arch Linux - GHC 7.6.1-1 (x86_64)". Archived from the original on 2013-02-01. Retrieved 2012-12-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20130201193357/https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/ghc/ ↩

  9. "Arch Linux - GHC 7.6.1-1 (I686)". Archived from the original on 2012-11-27. Retrieved 2012-12-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20121127164348/https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/ghc/ ↩

  10. [1] [dead link] http://wiki.freebsd.org/Haskell/Platform ↩

  11. "Gentoo Packages". Packages.gentoo.org. Retrieved 28 September 2018. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-haskell/haskell-platform ↩

  12. "Fedora Package Database – haskell-platform". Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2010-04-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20110717000609/https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/haskell-platform ↩

  13. "Debian – Details of package haskell-platform in squeeze". Archived from the original on 2010-12-08. Retrieved 2011-03-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20101208020645/http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/haskell-platform ↩

  14. "Download Haskell Platform". Hackage.haskell.org. Retrieved 28 September 2018. http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/mac.html ↩

  15. "Download Haskell Platform". Hackage.haskell.org. Retrieved 28 September 2018. http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/windows.html ↩

  16. "ReleaseTimetable – haskell-platform". Archived from the original on 2011-03-12. Retrieved 2010-08-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20110312093149/http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/ReleaseTimetable ↩

  17. "Archive this repository haskell/haskell-platform". GitHub. https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/issues/350 ↩