On 16 June 2005 09:08, Axel Simon wrote:

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 20:56 -0700, Daan Leijen wrote:

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I think that "c:\Program Files" is already too cluttered, maybe we should use:

1) C:\Program Files\Haskell\<package-name>-<version>

or

2) C:\Haskell\<package-name>-<version>

where "Haskell" could also be "Packages" I guess.

I strongly reject Daan's point :-). The prefix should come from the registry, since that is the Windows way. "C:\Program Files" doesn't even exists on foreign-language Windows machines. And programs which assume they know that C: is the right (i.e. only) hard disk are a pain, since you can do a network install where only Registry entries are local.

Ok, so $(ProgramFiles) is determined by the registry. Taking into account comments so far, I think we have: prefix = $(ProgramFiles)\Haskell\$(PackageName)-$(Version) libdir = $(prefix)\$(Compiler)-$(Version) bindir = $(prefix)\bin these are only defaults - users & packagers are free to change them. Sound reasonable? Cheers, Simon