Remaining bugs in Cabal under Windows

Simon Marlow simonmar at microsoft.com
Wed Aug 18 06:11:38 EDT 2004


On 18 August 2004 11:05, Krasimir Angelov wrote:

> --- Simon Marlow <simonmar at microsoft.com> wrote:
> 
>> While writing docs for getHomeDirectory /
>> getAppUserDataDirectory, it
>> occurred to me that we should probably have
>> getUserDocumentsDirectory
>> too.  Thoughts?
> 
> This is easy for Windows but I don't know the right
> Linux convention. Mandrake uses
> /home/<user name>/Documents.

$HOME is fine.  It would be used as the default directory in a "Save
As..." dialog box, for example.

Cheers,
	Simon


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