Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: install-dirs on Mac OS X

Tom Tobin wrote:

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Heinrich Apfelmus wrote:

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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/.

Seconded. At the very least, Haskell developers on OSX should be able to choose between a standard *nix installation scheme and the OSX internals approach, without breaking anything. The OSX internals approach makes some amount of sense for folks who just want to run Haskell programs as end users, but the *nix approach makes a lot more sense for active developers. -- Live well, ~wren