[Haskell-cafe] how to upgrade to a new version of Haskell?

[Johan Larson]

I found a bit of an odd problem.

In my configuration, which I haven't modified, the installed copy of cabal
appears in the path earlier than the directory into which executables built
by cabal are installed, meaning that when cabal installs a new version of
itself, that version is not used by default.

That doesn't seem right.

The installed location of cabal: C:\Program Files (x86)\Haskell
Platform\2013.2.0.0\lib\extralibs\bin
Where cabal puts executables: C:\Users\Johan\AppData\Roaming\cabal\bin

I can work around it, sure, but is this a deliberate choice or a blindspot
in the installer?


On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 6:55 PM, KC <kc1956 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Better to install it to a different folder than Program Files since
> Windows has special protections on that folder and many others. :)
>
> --
> --
>
> Sent from an expensive device which will be obsolete in a few months! :D
>
> Casey
>
> On Jun 23, 2014 2:48 PM, "Johan Larson" <johan.g.larson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am currently running an old installation of the Haskell environment
>> from 2012, and I would like to upgrade. Can I just grab the installer
>> from https://www.haskell.org/platform/windows.html and run it?
>>
>> This is on Windows.
>>
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>> Johan Larson -- Toronto, Canada
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