I am using HaskellPlatform-2012.4.0.0 on Win7. It's installed as portable. Paths are managed through .bat file so ghci and ghc works.
But cabal installs it self at C:\Users\name\AppData\Roaming\cabal\
To circumvent that I did:
cabal update
edit config file
delete all files except config
Changed paths:
remote-repo-cache: d:\h1\cabal\packages
world-file: d:\h1\cabal\world
build-summary: d:\h1\cabal\logs\build.log
It works, but it's far from truly portable.
Cabal config is bigger problem. It seems that it must be left in C:\Users\name\AppData\Roaming\cabal which is not portable at all.
First run of cabal update says Config file path source is default config file.
Questions:
1. where is that default config file?
2. can remote-repo-cache, world-file and other paths be relative?
3. is there a way of setting default cabal path so it never goes to C:\Users\name\AppData\Roaming\cabal
