Hi, Am Samstag, den 15.01.2011, 13:38 +0000 schrieb Neil Mitchell:
Thanks to Erik's help testing preview versions I've now released Hoogle 4.1.4 that sets the file creation mask appropriately.
Shouldn't data like this really go in /var rather than /usr ? To quote Wikipedia [1]: "/var/: Variable files—files whose content is expected to continually change during normal operation of the system—such as logs, spool files, and temporary e-mail files."
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. (Such an infrastructure would be nice for other people as well, e.g. leksah). But I might misunderstand how hoogle works and what the databases are for. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner mail: mail@joachim-breitner.de | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Key: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Debian Developer: nomeata@debian.org