On 27/12/2009 17:42, Duncan Coutts wrote:
Okay, the same with "--user" succeeds. Yay!
Right, global installs require admin permissions.
Historically Windows users did have admin permissions so the Windows
folks advised us that global should be the default. Obviously that's not
such a good default on Windows Vista or Windows 7. I've been agitating
to switch the default to per-user installations for a while now:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/465
I've not got much feedback from the Windows Haskell hacker. In the
development version of cabal-install I'm going to experimentally switch
the default to per-user installs and see how that goes.
Speaking as a Windows 7-using Haskeller, I'd be very glad if user install were
to become the default. (And even on Windows XP, it is still recommended not to
write to Program Files during normal usage.) I agree with the assessment in
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/465#comment:2 too.
Don't forget http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/466. This can also cause
failing in the default setup, even with --user installs. Presumably this would be
addressed by switching to the same thing cabal does on other platforms, which is to use
"$prefix/share" or similar.
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