Mark Lentczner wrote: > I have been thinking about the location of installed Haskell package > files on Mac OS X. The choice of location affects: GHC & other > Haskell implementations Haskell Platform Cabal & cabal-install > Haddock If all those agreed on directory locations and layouts, I > think the state of Haskell on Mac OS X would be nicer for users. In > particular, my hope is for users to end up with an automatically > complete Haddock documentation incorporating everything they install. > > > 1) Packages the user installs --global > > [...] > > I suggest that the default place for global installs on Mac OS X be: > /Library/Haskell/
+1 Likewise, ~/Library/Haskell seems to be the best place for user installs. > 2) Structure of package pieces > > I notice that cabal/cabal-install's default layout of where a > package's pieces go, and GHC's layout of its base packages don't > agree. Further, cabal/cabal-install's are not set up so that one can > easily delete an installed package without hunting down its parts. > > I think it best if everything for a package is in one place - making > removal very easy +1 With this scheme, a package could be changed from user to global by simply drag & drop to the other directory, though that won't work anyway due to dependencies. > 3) Symlinks for binaries > > This does suggest that it would be nice for the symlink-bindir > facility (is that in cabal itself, or added by cabal-install?) to > have a version for --global installs. Users could then either set > something like: symlink-global-bindir: /usr/local/bin in > .cabal/config. > > Or symlink-global-bindir: /Library/Haskell/bin and then put that in > their PATH +1 , considering that folks may also want to install their GHC with MacPorts. Regards, Heinrich Apfelmus -- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe