[Haskell-cafe] Cabal install on Windows 7

[Deniz Dogan]

2009/9/10 Sebastian Sylvan <sebastian.sylvan at gmail.com>:
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>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Duncan Coutts
> <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 20:19 +0100, Sebastian Sylvan wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Duncan Coutts
>> > <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> >
>> >         If the Windows users can come to a consensus on whether the
>> >         default should be global or user, then we can easily switch
>> >         it. The same applies for the default global or user
>> >         installation paths.
>>
>> > I think it's morally right to run as user by default. Yes, the windows
>> > culture has some legacy that may, on occasion, make it slightly harder
>> > to use "well behaved" programs, but it's fairly minor these days.
>>
>> So is it just a matter of switching the default, or do the default user
>> paths have to change too? Is there any recommended/sensible place for
>> installing per-user applications on Windows? (I think there wasn't on
>> XP, but perhaps that's changed on Vista/Win7)
>>
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> I think it's %LOCALAPPDATA%
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Is there any %LOCALAPPDATA% on Windows XP? If not, what is the
difference between %LOCALAPPDATA% and %APPDATA% in Windows Vista/7? I
was thinking if it's not unreasonable to store Cabal stuff in
%APPDATA%, one might as well use that and cover XP, Vista and 7 all in
one.

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Deniz Dogan