ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

[Simon Marlow]

Felix Martini wrote:
> On Dec 16, 2007 10:56 AM, Duncan Coutts wrote:
>> Note that for data files like the .ghci file it's probably better to use
>> getAppUserDataDirectory "ghci" which will return $HOME/.ghci on unix
>> systems and "C:/Documents And Settings/user/Application Data/ghci" on
>> Windows.
> 
> I've added a proposal and a patch to Trac
> (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1987).

I'd like to suggest a slight change to this.  Currently we put the user 
package database in

   <appdata>\ghc\<arch>-<os>-<ghcversion>\package.conf

so perhaps the GHCi startup file should be

   <appdata>\ghc\ghci.cfg

To keep all the GHC-related settings together in <appdata>\ghc.

Additionally, I propose we make no changes to what happens on Unix, and no 
changes to getHomeDirectory.

Cheers,
	Simon