#6: Windows installer
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Reporter: duncan | Owner: refold
Type: task | Status: closed
Priority: major | Milestone: Release 1: 2009.0.0
Component: Platform | Resolution: fixed
Keywords: |
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Changes (by bulatz):
* status: assigned => closed
* resolution: => fixed
Comment:
1. I think that we should allow different HP versions to coexist.
actually, each HP is just bundle of some ghc and library versions, so i HP
2009 installs ghc 6.10.2 + gtk2hs 0.10 and then HP 2010 installs ghc 6.12
and gtk2hs 0.11 - everything should be ok. the only problem is installing
of the same ghc/library versions - it shou;ldn't overwrite previopus user
data, such as ghc-pkg config
it will allow users to run apps developed with various Рзы in mind without
reinstalling HPs all the day
2. ithink that we should go at the way of simplifying and making more
natural choice of install directories and Start Menu paths - rather than
following existing GhC habits, we would ask GHC team to change them
so, everything should be installed under "Program Files\Haskell"
directory, into ghc-6.10.2, fgl-0.3.1 and so on subdirs and every HP
should install into the same directory - as far as we can solve above-
mentioned overwrite problem
we should then create "Start menu\Haskell\Ghc-6.10.2" submenu
and we should recommend GHC developers to install to the same dir/menu,
and other Haskell infrastructiure developers to use the same Haskell
dir/menu
3. another possible alternative is that we consider each HP version as
independent and install into "Program Files\Haskell Platform\2009.0.0"
directory with menu at "Start menu\Haskell Platform\2009.0.0\Ghc-6.10.2"
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