Bootstrap install of cabal-install should go into a common path, such as /usr/local/bin

[bitemyapp]

https://gist.github.com/grownseed/4fd2e91eca829cc039de

GHC does this. Cabal should too, the inconsistency is pointless.

[23Skidoo]

Note that you can use ./bootstrap.sh --global.

[bitemyapp]

@23Skidoo users won't know about that. We should change the default. This is all about the default-path friction and what end-users are going to encounter.

[23Skidoo]

I think bootstrap.sh always worked like that, so there's the issue of backwards compat. I guess we could add a Makefile that would just call ./bootstrap.sh --global for compatibility with GHC.

[bitemyapp]

That's satisfactory for my purposes. Want me to PR it?

Edit: I will need to verify that "global" here doesn't mean cabal install --global, because if it does, that is also not terribly kosher. The point is to get the binary in a location that everybody will have in their path.

[23Skidoo]

Sure, that'd be nice.