[Haskell-cafe] Abstracting configuration directories

[Henk-Jan van Tuyl]

On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 18:15:09 +0100, Michael Orlitzky  
<michael at orlitzky.com> wrote:

> On 12/19/2013 01:40 AM, Tim C. Schroeder wrote:
>> I think this is what you're looking for:
>>
>> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/directory-1.2.0.1/docs/System-Directory.html#g:2
>>
>
> getAppUserDataDirectory will give me the user's configuration directory
> (ala $HOME/.htsnrc), but not the global one (whatever I'm supposed to
> use instead of /etc on Windows).

You could use the environment variable AllUsersProfile[0] for this.

The directory package should be extended with a function  
getAppGlobalDataDirectory.

Regards,
Henk-Jan van Tuyl


[0] http://environmentvariables.org/AllUsersProfile


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