[Hackage] #465: default global install on windows is a problem
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#465: default global install on windows is a problem
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Reporter: duncan | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Cabal-1.8
Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.1
Severity: normal | Keywords:
Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.8.3
Platform: Windows |
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Lots of windows users have problems installing things globally. Some are
using multi-user systems. More are using Vista where it seems that even
when they are running as administrator they cannot install files in
`C:\Program Files\`.
We should revisit the decision to install globally and see if we cannot
find a default that works better. Failing by default is bad.
We may also want to try to improve the checking beforehand to check if we
would have permissions to write into the target directories. If not we can
fail at configure time rather than waiting until install time and failing
ungracefully.
This needs someone who knows and cares about windows. Particularly for the
Vista aspects.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/465>
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