ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

Juanma Barranquero lekktu at gmail.com
Tue Dec 18 05:43:13 EST 2007


On Dec 18, 2007 11:18 AM, Simon Marlow <simonmarhaskell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

That's orthogonal to allowing %HOME to override <appdata>.

             Juanma


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