local-bin-path doesn't accept tilde syntax

[unode]

I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong but if I add:

{
    local-bin-path: ~/bin
}

to my config.yaml file, stack path complains that:

No directory could be located matching the supplied path: ~/bin

Is there any other way to refer to this location with a relative path or something like $HOME?

[cheecheeo]

@unode this works for me:

{
    local-bin-path: bin
}

[unode]

@cheecheeo it doesn't work for me.

If I set it up like you mentioned it becomes relative to the current path.
It only works if I'm on ~/ when I run stack install which is hardly ever.

[sjakobi]

I think this issue would already be solved with #1375.

The issue with tildes (~) is that they are AFAIK legal filenames in their own right, so it's never clear whether ~/x refers to $HOME/x or $PWD/~/x.

I'm closing this in favor of #1375 but feel free to reopen this if you would like to discuss this further.