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Recommend installing stack instead of MinGHC #75 #87

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Recommend installing stack instead of MinGHC #75
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That better @3noch? #87
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Stop, think, and roll: you might want stack instead
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Right at the head of MinGHC seems a bit surprising. Perhaps this could be a subsection instead?


For most use cases, we recommend [you download and use
stack](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/wiki/Downloads#windows)
instead of proceeding with MinGHC. The MinGHC approach to installing both GHC
and MSYS has been adopted by stack, and stack provides some additional
benefits:

* Easier to upgrade to newer GHC versions
* Support for working with multiple GHC versions without switching environments
* Simple upgrade procedure for stack itself
* Less PATH variable contamination

For more information on using stack, please [read the stack
guide](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/blob/master/GUIDE.md).

MinGHC is still a supported and active project, and makes sense for people
looking for network-free installers for a Haskell toolchain. For more
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Or specific GHC versions including older versions.

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Can't you tell stack to use specific GHC versions too?

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Only back to 7.8

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But we're not uploading anything prior to that anyway?

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We have 7.2.2 on the web page.

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Why not make an explicit exception in this list saying "if you need an older version of GHC, use MinGHC."

information, see [issue #75](https://github.com/fpco/minghc/issues/75).

# Minimum GHC Installer [![Build Status](https://img.shields.io/travis/fpco/minghc.svg?style=flat)](https://travis-ci.org/fpco/minghc)

This project provides a Windows installer with:

* [GHC](https://www.haskell.org/ghc/), so you can write Haskell code.
* [Cabal](https://www.haskell.org/cabal/), so you can install Haskell packages.
* [stack](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack#readme), a modern build tool for Haskell.
* [MSYS](http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS), so packages with configure scripts (notably [network](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/network)) compile.
* [Cabal](https://www.haskell.org/cabal/), an older but still commonly used Haskell build tool.

It _does not_ provide all the packages included with the [Haskell Platform](https://www.haskell.org/platform/), but it _does_ provide an environment where you can install those packages. Some require [installing c libraries](docs/InstallingCLibs.md).

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