Hi Joachim, >> The Hoogle databases are expected to change very rarely - most users >> will install them when they install Hoogle. A small number will update >> them occasionally as the packages update. I'm using the Cabal datadir >> to store the databases, but does Cabal provide a more sensible place >> to put them? As a Windows user, I'm happy to defer to what Posix >> system users want. > > shouldn’t they change with every library update? In that case, maybe > that should be managed by cabal, similar to how cabal can update your > haddock index at ~/.cabal/share/doc/index.html.
Yes, that's exactly how it should work. All we need is someone to do the work :-) There is a bug tracking the progress on this issue here: http://code.google.com/p/ndmitchell/issues/detail?id=80 - but its a reasonable amount of work, touching lots of different parts of the Haskell infra. Thanks, Neil _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe