Hi Mark, Thanks very much for your work on this. My $.02 below.
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 5:15 AM, Mark Lentczner <mark.lentcz...@gmail.com>wrote: > > 3) The default cabal layout is inconsistent with how the HP installed > packages are laid out. This isn't detrimental, just not pretty. My > solution is that I 'wrap' the installed cabal command with a shell > script that looks to see if the user has a .cabal/config file, and if > not, writes a new one there that sets the layout to match the HP > layout. Several sub-issues: > > 3.1) I renamed the real cabal "cabal.inst", and that causes error > messages to say that. So - I'm going to have to reference the real > cabal in another way so that it can remain named "cabal". > > 3.2) The new .cabal/config file uses symlink-bindir so that things the > user installs will be somewhere on their PATH. The problem is that it > turns out that a stock Mac OS X account doesn't have ~/bin (the > logical place to point this) on the PATH. So I'll probably point this > at /usr/local/bin (which is on the PATH). Still mulling this over... If I understand you properly, I think this is the wrong solution. Could you instead have a script check if ~/bin is on the path, and if not, edit ~/.bash_profile to add it? Also, at least in my current setup cabal installs executables to ~/.cabal/bin, which I prefer to just ~/bin. YMMV. John L.
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