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

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Peter Verswyvelen wrote:

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.

Yep, I agree. I'm not sure why Cabal defaults to --global on Windows, but I found it quite counter-intuitive having come from a Linux environment. I forgot about the different default for some time. Jeff Wheeler