On 10/21/08 17:55, Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 09:41 -0500, Larry Evans wrote:
Just that one little piece of information, that |cabal install| , by default, installs in ~/.cabal and then enables ghc to look there for packages, would have saved an awful lot of time :(
Where would you like that information to have been presented? Perhaps something the first time you used the cabal command to say what configuration it was using?
Duncan
I'd suggest putting this information after the brief description of the install option here: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/CabalInstall For example: Commands: install Installs a list of packages. The 'visibility' of the install depends on whether --user or --global FLAG is used. With --user, the package is only visible to the user invoking the cabal command. With --global, the package is visible to all users; however, this requires root authority. list List available packages on the server (cached). ... I'm at fault for not reading: For more information about a command, try 'cabal COMMAND --help'. lower down on that page. I do remember actually doing cabal install --help but I can't remember if that was after or before Bertrand's post. However, even that command's description of the meaning of --user and --global is obscured by so many other options, that it's easy to miss. Also their descriptions: --user Enable doing a per-user installation --global Disable doing a per-user installation doesn't explain what 'per-user installation' means. If it just said: A per-user installation means the installed package is only seen by the haskell compiler if the compiler is invoked by the same user which issued the 'cabal install' command. That would have clearly indicated to me that the root doing 'cabal install' would not make the installed package available to any other user. (I probably should have figured this out by noting the location was /root/.cabal/...; however, that just didn't happen.) HTH and thanks for your interest. -regards, Larry