On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 15:44 -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote:
Duncan Coutts wrote:
... For unix systems, do per-user installs to --prefix=~/.cabal but if ~/bin exists then add symlinks there.
just a reminder for anyone: if a directory is not already in $PATH then it's annoying to change $PATH; older shell sessions won't be updated automatically with the new $PATH, at least. Makes it a little harder to give the user advice on what to do, in the cases in which we have to resort to merely giving advice.
And many new users don't know what a path is or how to change one. I'd like to avoid new users seeing: $ cabal install xmonad cabal: this didn't do what you expected, to fix it change the foo setting in your bar file. It's not friendly. Actually at the moment it's worse though: $ cabal install xmonad [.. lots of build output .. ] $ xmonad bash: xmonad: command not found # user gives up, assuming cabal is borked Duncan