cabal sandbox and the dist directory

[Bram Neijt]

I found the dist directory still being there a nice feature. For each
project I want to start I want the newest stuff, but some of my longer
running things tend to require older dependencies and I don't want to
have to upgrade. This means that I have multiple small project that
could share a 700MB sandbox, while my larger projects can have their
own.

What I do is use a single sandbox and symlink the cabal.sandbox.config
file in place. This means there is no .cabal-sandbox next to my code,
but there is a dist directory, which I use to run the executable and
inspect the build artifacts. [1]

Moving dist into cabal-sandbox would mean that I would have to either
symlink my dist in also, or use the full path to my sandbox location
every time I want to look at the build artifacts.

How would you easily share a sandbox between multiple projects if dist
is moved into the sandbox?

Greetings,

Bram

[1] I did:
mkdir project
mkdir cabal-sandbox
cd cabal-sandbox; cabal sandbox init
cd ../project
ln -s ../cabal-sandbox/cabal.sandbox.config



On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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