[Haskell-cafe] Cabal install on Windows 7

Bulat Ziganshin bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com
Thu Sep 10 09:36:03 EDT 2009


Hello Matthijs,

Thursday, September 10, 2009, 5:24:57 PM, you wrote:

>> - use windows API for requesting elevation during the process (ugly)
> Why is this ugly? This seems like an elegant solution, to get privileges only
> when you actually need them?

afaik you need to run special COM server with elevated privileges.
it's much easier just to run external app with proper manifest

see page 22 in http://pascalfonteneau.developpez.com/articles/delphi/vista/uac/VistaUACandDelphi.pdf



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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com



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