Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install on Windows 7

On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 20:19 +0100, Sebastian Sylvan wrote:

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Duncan Coutts wrote:

If the Windows users can come to a consensus on whether the default should be global or user, then we can easily switch it. The same applies for the default global or user installation paths.

I think it's morally right to run as user by default. Yes, the windows culture has some legacy that may, on occasion, make it slightly harder to use "well behaved" programs, but it's fairly minor these days.

So is it just a matter of switching the default, or do the default user paths have to change too? Is there any recommended/sensible place for installing per-user applications on Windows? (I think there wasn't on XP, but perhaps that's changed on Vista/Win7) Have you tried running with user as the default for a while? Does it work ok? Duncan