Am Sonntag 19 April 2009 13:09:17 schrieb Thomas Davie: > >> I don't understand what makes user installs more convenient. > >> Certainly, > >> my preference would be for global all the time I expect something > >> that > >> says it's going to "install" something to install it onto my > >> computer, > >> like any other installation program does. What is it that makes user > >> installs more convenient in this situation? > > > > You don't need 'sudo' access for user installs. This means that 'cabal > > install' works out of the box on every system, without needing > > admin/root privs (esp. important for students). > > But students will be used to needing to configure this in every > other installation system out there they need to tell it to install in > their user directory. Personally I find it more convenient to have > the "install" program do what it says it does! Install it!
But it does install it, only not where you want it. Just for the record, I (no student, my own computer, sole user) prefer user-installs and cabal's default behaviour. Makes it so much easier to get rid of things I don't want anymore without any fear of buggering my system because something depends on it. > > This would save confusion about old tools that do things globally, and > not confuse students, because they're all already used to giving extra > flags to make install not install things system wide. Yes, it is bad that the runhaskell Setup interface has a different default. But, as Duncan said, too late to change it now. > > Bob _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
