Global Constraints for Cabal and also Release Plan?

[Bardur Arantsson]

On 09/22/2015 12:11 AM, Gershom B wrote:
[--snip--]
> 
> The proposal there would be to add an env variable (perhaps
> CABAL_PATH_PREFIX) which, if it existed, would be added to the path
> before running child processes (such as those kicked off by
> build-type:configure). That way windows environments could provide the
> Msys2 bin directory and those tools would then be made available to
> the configure scripts, etc.
> 

I'm not sure I understand... what does CABAL_PATH_PREFIX add over just
adding whatever is needed to the $PATH before executing cabal?

(Without having looked at the issue thread.)

I'm mainly worried about option-itis... which cabal-install is already
suffering a lot from.

Regards,