Mark Lentczner wrote:
I have been thinking about the location of installed Haskell package
files on Mac OS X.
Thanks, we've really needed that for a while now.
The choice of location affects:
GHC other Haskell implementations
Haskell Platform
Cabal cabal-install
Mark Lentczner wrote:
[*] The Apple guidelines for the /Library and ~/Library files are
here:http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFileSystem/Articles/LibraryDirectory.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20002282-BAJHCHJI
Thanks for the link. I followed through to a
Graham Klyne wrote:
Mark Lentczner wrote:
[*] The Apple guidelines for the /Library and ~/Library files are
here:http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFileSystem/Articles/LibraryDirectory.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20002282-BAJHCHJI
Thanks for the link. I
First, we must look at how Apple intends the various Library directories to be
used. Please see the Apple docs on it[* link below]. Essentially, /Library is
the Mac OS X equivalent of /usr/local.
However, I would be opposed to storing anything in /Library or /System. Those
are for system
Mark Lentczner wrote:
First, we must look at how Apple intends the various Library directories to be
used. Please see the Apple docs on it[* link below]. Essentially, /Library is
the Mac OS X equivalent of /usr/local.
However, I would be opposed to storing anything in /Library or /System.
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 22:55 -0800, Mark Lentczner wrote:
I have been thinking about the location of installed Haskell package
files on Mac OS X. The choice of location affects:
[..]
Thoughts? I'd be happy to help by supplying patches for various tools
to normalize all this on some agreed
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 22:55 -0800, Mark Lentczner wrote:
I suggest that the default place for global installs on Mac OS X be:
/Library/Haskell/
As I've mentioned I'm mostly an OSX ignoramus. One thing I think I've
seen said before however is that things in /Library and ~/Library are
On Dec 22, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Duncan Coutts wrote:
One thing I think I've seen said before however is that things in /Library
and ~/Library are supposed to be app bundles or frameworks or some other
special OSX packaging thing, rather than traditional Unix-style installations.
Nope - not
Mark Lentczner wrote:
Taking a cue from the various preinstalled language systems on Mac OS X, up
over in /Library might be a better place:
Python puts installed packages in:
/Library/Python/version/site-packages
Ruby puts installed packages in:
Mark Lentczner wrote:
On Dec 22, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Duncan Coutts wrote:
One thing I think I've seen said before however is that things in /Library and
~/Library are supposed to be app bundles or frameworks or some other special
OSX packaging thing, rather than traditional Unix-style
I have been thinking about the location of installed Haskell package files on
Mac OS X. The choice of location affects:
GHC other Haskell implementations
Haskell Platform
Cabal cabal-install
Haddock
If all those agreed on directory locations and layouts, I think
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