On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 15:44 -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: > Duncan Coutts wrote: > > ... > > For unix systems, do per-user installs to --prefix=~/.cabal but if ~/bin > > exists then add symlinks there. > > just a reminder for anyone: if a directory is not already in > $PATH then it's annoying to change $PATH; older shell > sessions won't be updated automatically with the new $PATH, > at least. Makes it a little harder to give the user advice > on what to do, in the cases in which we have to resort to > merely giving advice.
And many new users don't know what a path is or how to change one. I'd like to avoid new users seeing: $ cabal install xmonad cabal: this didn't do what you expected, to fix it change the foo setting in your bar file. It's not friendly. Actually at the moment it's worse though: $ cabal install xmonad [.. lots of build output .. ] $ xmonad bash: xmonad: command not found # user gives up, assuming cabal is borked Duncan _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
