Jeffrey Yasskin wrote:
FWIW, Python recently went through this exercise and produced http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0370/, which does use the $HOME/.local directory. I don't know how much that should affect Cabal's choice, but it's a bit of prior art if you're interested.
It seems $HOME/.local/bin is shared between all programs, unlike e.g. $HOME/.local/lib/python2.6/ ? Of course this is how /usr/local works already. But I wonder if we should put the actual binaries somewhere else, and just put symlinks in that "bin" directory. What if the pythoners accidentally call some program "happy" and it conflicts with the binary derived from haskell's Hackage? (Of course that would be a problem for other reasons, but it's worse if it requires overwriting unknown binaries with binaries rather than symlinks vs. symlinks.) -Isaac