[Haskell-cafe] Abstracting configuration directories

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 12/20/2013 02:09 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> 
> A patch looks easy, but I'm not sure that I would call /etc the "global
> data directory" on Unix. I'll have to think about it some more.


For posterity, when using Cabal, the system config directory is
available via getSysconfDir in build/autogen/Paths_<program>.hs. This
puts the responsibility on the person who runs configure, which I kind
of like.