FW: [GHC] #916: windows installer should play nice with other Haskell tools

[J. Garrett Morris]

On 9/28/06, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think me and Claus came to an agreement, and I have documented it in
> a wiki page at:
> http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Installers
>
> Anything there that is either unclear or controversial?

While this may not be true for other interpreted files, the convention
that seems to have been established for batch files, HTML files, etc
is that the Open (default) menu item runs (or displays) the given
file, and that there are non-default Edit options for each possible
editor (e.g., Notepad, Dreamweaver, etc.).  Adopting this convention,
each interpreter would add "Open in <interpreter>" to the context
menu, providing the user an option to make this the default behavior,
and would, if necessary, also install an "Edit with <interpreter>"
option.  I believe adopting this approach would not only preserve
similarity with existing behavior, but would be more internally
consistent.  Presented with a list of "Open in <interpreter>" options
and a default also called "Open", I would expect them to have similar
behavior.  Editing is not (to me) similar to running.

 /g