cabal sandbox and the dist directory

[Johan Tibell]

Hi Daniel,

I think we eventually want to move dist/ inside the sandbox and eventually
move the sandbox out of the package directory too. This is too support a
world which is less focused on a single package. See my answer here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25278996/cabal-test-in-a-sandbox?noredirect=1#comment39425358_25278996


On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Daniel Trstenjak <
daniel.trstenjak at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> currently it's conceptually and practically a bit unpleasant, that the
> sandbox is a bit holey, because the 'dist' directory remains when
> deleting the sandbox.
>
> Is there a special reason for this behaviour?
>
> In the case of a sandbox, why is there a 'dist' directory at all,
> respectively why isn't it located inside of the '.cabal-sandbox' directory?
>
>
> Greetings,
> Daniel
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