Thomas Davie
There seems to be an assumption amongst the community that a user's home directory is the most useful place for cabal to install to by default. A few people have challenged that. I wanted to find out which one most people do actually prefer, so please go and vote on this poll.
http://noordering.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/cabals-default-install-location/
It's no more than a straw poll, I don't know how protected it is against ballot stuffing, but I'm pretty confident that Haskellers are trustworthy enough not to play with it that way.
I'll tell you all the result next week.
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