Re: [Haskell-cafe] Abstracting configuration directories

I think the "right" way to accomplish this is through the Paths_pkg module generated by Cabal: http://www.haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/developing-packages.html#accessing-... Specifically, the getDataFile function can be used to look up the actual location of files specified in the data-files: field of the .cabal file. This should even work if someone uses a nonstandard --prefix. On 2013-12-20 12:29, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:

On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 18:15:09 +0100, Michael Orlitzky wrote:

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On 12/19/2013 01:40 AM, Tim C. Schroeder wrote:

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I think this is what you're looking for:

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/directory-1.2.0.1/docs/System-Directory.h...

getAppUserDataDirectory will give me the user's configuration directory (ala $HOME/.htsnrc), but not the global one (whatever I'm supposed to use instead of /etc on Windows).

You could use the environment variable AllUsersProfile[0] for this.

The directory package should be extended with a function getAppGlobalDataDirectory.

Regards, Henk-Jan van Tuyl

[0] http://environmentvariables.org/AllUsersProfile

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