Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform for OSX ?

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Giovanni Tirloni wrote:

I meant install new packages through cabal under a different username. The cabal repo should be localized unless you specify --global

Please see Rogan's suggestions.

Thanks for your help! In case I upgrade to the latest Haskell Platform, what will happen to packages already installed in my ~/.cabal folder? Some of these are quite old and most probably will be incompatible with GHC 7 Does upgrade process remove old and create anew ~/.cabal folder?