Thanks, I'll keep it in mind should I decide to revisit this. My
experiences of getting per-user installs to work reliably with
MSIs haven't been too positive.
--sigbjorn
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From: "Malcolm Wallace"
I have been attempting to solve some outstanding problems with building hmake, nhc98, and hat, using ghc under Windows. I don't have a Windows machine of my own, but our Dept has some public-access Windows 2000 Pro machines I can use. However, when I try to use the ghc .msi automatic installer package, it reports that I do not have sufficient privileges to install ghc in my own temporary disk area. Apparently it needs administrator privileges, which I do not have (and will not be able to acquire).
Are administrator privileges really required? I notice that the installer for Cygwin (i.e. not ghc) explicitly allows you to choose whether to install for all users or "just for me". Would it be difficult to allow the same choice in the ghc installer?
Regards, Malcolm