Tom Tobin wrote:
Heinrich Apfelmus wrote:
Likewise, ~/Library/Haskell seems to be the best place for user installs.
While I don't mind the /Library/Haskell path for global installs, I'm not sure how I feel about this for local installs. It usually drives me crazy when my more "Unix-y" tools stick stuff in my ~/Library/ directory; for instance, I had to actively fight with my copy of Aquamacs Emacs in order to get everything running from ~/.emacs.d/ rather than ~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs/.
The reason I'm proposing this is consistency: the idea behind the two Library folders is that your Haskell installation is the union of the /Library/Haskell and the ~/Library/Haskell directories. The only difference between these two directories should be that the former is available to all users while the latter is available to just a single user. On a related note, with the --prefix--/packages/ layout for packages in place, it would ideally be possible to mv packages from /Library to ~/Library and vice-versa, making them available to all users or to just a single user with a simple file rename. At least, that's the OS X philosophy. Our main obstacle would be to figure out what to do with dependents and dependencies. Regards, Heinrich Apfelmus -- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com