Ticket #97 (assigned enhancement)

Opened 4 years ago

Last modified 7 months ago

The default install dir for cabal-install should be $PLATFORMDIR/cabal

Reported by: refold Owned by: refold
Priority: major Milestone: 2013.2.0.0
Component: Windows installer Keywords:
Cc: the.dead.shall.rise@…

Description

Installer should set the default cabal-install install directory to $PLATFORMDIR/cabal (or something similar). Users find having two different directories for "Haskell stuff" confusing:

"OK. But given that I said "install Haskell" in *this* location, I sort of expected all my Haskell stuff to go there."

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/64355

Change History

Changed 4 years ago by refold

  • status changed from new to assigned

Changed 4 years ago by refold

Thinking more about it, the location of .cabal/config should be also changed to something like ~/Application Data/Haskell Platform/$PLATFORMVERSION/cabal/config if we want to allow for different versions of the Platform to co-exist (#63).

Changed 3 years ago by refold

  • milestone changed from 2009.4.0 to 2010.2.0.0

Milestone 2009.4.0 deleted

Changed 3 years ago by refold

  • milestone changed from 2010.2.0.0 to 2010.4.0.0

Changed 12 months ago by MtnViewMark

  • milestone 2010.4.0.0 deleted

Milestone 2010.4.0.0 deleted

Changed 7 months ago by refold

  • milestone set to 2013.2.0.0

Changed 7 months ago by refold

cabal-install now puts everything in Application Data/cabal by default. Could this be considered fixed?

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