This is the the Haskell Platform, version 2009.2.0.2: a single, standard Haskell distribution for every system.
The Haskell Platform is a blessed library and tool suite for Haskell distilled from Hackage, along with installers for a wide variety of machines. The contents of the platform is specified here: Haskell: Batteries Included.
The platform saves you the task of picking and choosing the best Haskell libraries and tools to use for a task. Distro maintainers that support the Haskell Platform can be confident they're fully supporting Haskell as the developers intend it. Developers targetting the platform can be confident they have a trusted base of code to work with.
Please note that this is a beta release - we would appreciate feedback. Issues related to the packaging and installers can be filed in the Platform Bug Tracker. Future releases of the platform will include more tools and libraries to meet developer need.
The Windows installer provides GHC 6.10.4, along with the full tool and library suite,
The MacOS X installer provides GHC 6.10.4 and the full tool and library suite:
A few distributions already support the Haskell Platform. See your package maintainer for more information.
For unix systems, there is a generic source installer.
You need GHC 6.10.4 installed. You should get this from your distro or alternatively you can get a GHC 6.10.4 generic binary.
Download and unpack the installer. Then (possibly with 'sudo'):
./configure
make
make install
The platform specification is also available, to aid in constructing distro packages, in .cabal and tarball form:
Fri Jul 31 15:11:11 PDT 2009