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DISTRIBUTION
------------
The platform comes in several forms:
Again: If you want to install the haskell platform, this is NOT the right location. You can download prebuilt installers for most systems from

*source repo* - This is the source of the system that builds the platform. It
includes the file that defines the versions of GHC and other packages that make
up the platform. You can use this to build the platform from just a GHC bindist.
https://www.haskell.org/platform/

You can check out the official release from github:
http://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform
The master branch is always stable, and releases are tagged like "2014.2.0.0".
Development usually happens in other branches.

*source tarball* - This is a specially packaged version of the repo that
includes the sources of the packages that make up the platform, and excludes
some of the ancillary things in the source repo. You can use this to build
the platform without access to hackage or even an internet connection. You still
need a GHC bindist, as well as cabal and stack binaries, either built from source or
available from their respective websites.
From there you can get the following:

*installer* - For Windows and OS X, the platform is distributed as a standard
installer for the operating system. It contains a fully built version of the
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has those, you can generally just unpack this tarball, and run a script to
get it setup.

DISTRIBUTION OF TOOLKIT FOR BUILDING INSTALLERS
------------

If you really want to get the toolkit to build your _own_ platform installer, then you're in the right spot.

The platform installer toolkit comes in several forms:

*source tarball* - This is a specially packaged version of the repo that
includes the sources of the packages that make up the platform, and excludes
some of the ancillary things in the source repo. You can use this to build
the platform without access to hackage or even an internet connection. You still
need a GHC bindist, as well as cabal and stack binaries, either built from source or
available from their respective websites.

This is also available from https://www.haskell.org/platform/

*source repo* - This is the source of the system that builds the platform. It
includes the file that defines the versions of GHC and other packages that make
up the platform. You can use this to build the platform from just a GHC bindist.

You can check out the official release from github:
http://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform

The master branch is always stable, and releases are tagged like "2014.2.0.0".
Development usually happens in other branches.


REQUIREMENTS FOR BUILDING
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