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

No Windows XP did not have support for roaming profiles yet I think. But it wouldn't be too difficult to use %LOCALAPPDATA% first, and when it doesn't exist, use %APPDATA%? This article explains a lot about the differences; I didn't have time yet to read it in detail http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766489(WS.10).aspx What other software sometimes does (like Autodesk Maya), is just create a folder in the "My Documents" logical folder. I personally don't like this. On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Deniz Dogan wrote:

2009/9/10 Sebastian Sylvan :

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On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Duncan Coutts wrote:

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

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

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        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.

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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)

I think it's %LOCALAPPDATA%

-- Sebastian Sylvan

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Is there any %LOCALAPPDATA% on Windows XP? If not, what is the difference between %LOCALAPPDATA% and %APPDATA% in Windows Vista/7? I was thinking if it's not unreasonable to store Cabal stuff in %APPDATA%, one might as well use that and cover XP, Vista and 7 all in one.

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