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. -- Daan Leijen Brian Smith wrote:

On 6/15/05, *Simon Marlow* mailto:simonmar@microsoft.com> wrote:

On 15 June 2005 05:49, Brian Smith wrote:

> The documentation states in Section 3.1 that the default value of > "prefix" is "/usr/local" on Unix. However, it doesn't specify what the > prefix is on Windows. I found that the default value for prefix is: > C:\Program > Files\<package-name>\<compiler-name>-<compiler-version>. For example, > version 1.0 of a package named "Foo" compiled with GHC > 6.5 would have a default prefix of: > C:\Program Files\Foo\ghc-6.5

The compiler version is there to avoid conflicts in the case when you have multiple versions of GHC installed and the package is installed for each one. However, I don't think we currently include the compiler & version in the default $(libdir) on Unix, so whatever we do we should do it consistently.

Okay, that makes more sense to me. However, I think that executables should go in "C:\Program Files\<package-name>-<package-version>\bin," not

- Brian

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

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. Axel.