On 2008 Aug 3, at 21:56, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
Duncan Coutts:
Obviously ~/.cabal/bin is not on the $PATH, so users who install say, yi or whatever find that typing yi at the prompt does not do anything even though they just installed it. That's a failure on our part. It should work, and if we cannot make it work by default then we need to tell users what they need to do to make it work.
Grins and giggles: check the user's $PATH for directories under $HOME and use the first one found?
* Hiding installed files in a . directory is very bad style IMHO. I think that should never happen. Independent of whether you install right into /usr/local/bin or whether you symlink
Even if I tell it to? Also, you might want to avoid StarOffice (and perhaps OpenOffice still does it these days).
or whatever. You might install files under /usr/local/lib/cabal and then symlink, but probably its nicer to installto /usr/local/lib/ <package>-<version> and then symlink.
You're missing a key point: *user installs should not require root*. /usr/local is used for global installs, not for per-user installs.
* On OS X, its not generally appropriate to install into /usr/local either. Each user has ~/Applications and ~/Library directories that are usually used for per-user installs. Just
Those are valid only for OSX applications; Unixy stuff goes elsewhere. By convention Fink uses /sw, MacPorts uses /opt/local, and /usr/local is left for packages not owned by either; this makes it a good place to install Cabalized programs (globally).
* ~/.cabal is bad on Mac OS, too. Preferences ought to go into ~/ Library/Preferences/
Again, not for Unixy stuff, only for full OSX applications and frameworks. Try "ls -a" sometime. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH