Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install on Windows 7

Ouch, right, I forgot the default is global. It works fine with cabal install --user. And of course I could have edited the default config file, setting user-install: True Well, maybe for newbies this might be a bit confusing. Typically, under Windows Vista or 7 when you try to install something that requires admin rights, you get a popup window asking if it's okay to do so. Would be great to have this support built into Cabal? On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:45 PM, John Van Enk wrote:

Might it make sense to try and get the concept of "global" and "user" working in Windows? (It may already, but I noticed that the default seems to be global.")

I don't know what technical challenges there are, but the ApplicationData directory (or AppData, or whatever) seems like a good place to stick user cabal packages.

/jve

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Peter Verswyvelen wrote:

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I tried the "cabal install" command on Windows 7, and I had to run it with administrative privileges, otherwise I got access denied (it failed to create the Haskell folder in C:\Program Files)

Not sure if this is also the case on Vista.

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