Hello Mikhail, Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 12:19:47 PM, you wrote:
>>> "Just extraction" shouldn't create any shortcuts at all - you probably >>> have them left over from the previous installation. > Hmm, I should probably install Vista and check this myself. it works correctly on XP? >> imagine that you installed HP2009.1, then installed a lot of libs on >> top. next month you install HP2009.2 - and all these libs are gone. >> although everything you need is just to add to your installation pack >> of "standard" libs included in new HP release > The installer touches neither your $PROGRAMFILES\Haskell directory nor > ~/.cabal/config, so if both platform releases use the same GHC > version, the libraries should continue to work (theoretically at > least, I haven't tested it:-) ). > If the GHC versions are different, you'd have to rebuild the libraries anyway. i mean that you will end up with two ghc installations - old with extar libs installed and new with newer set of std libs. each one is one-legged >> yes, .bat will be useful too. but i meant start menu shortcuts for us, >> dumb users :) > Installer would add .bat shortcuts to the start menu, just like VS > does. It'd give you a command line with PATH set up to point to the > bin dirs of this platform release. Or do you want a shortcut that > modifies system settings permanently? yes -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulat.zigans...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
