Cabal and simultaneous installations of the same package

[Duncan Coutts]

On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 22:10 +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 20:13 +0000, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
> > But I'm hazy about why sandboxes are needed at all.  As I understand
> > it, they were invented to solve the very problem that is now solved
> > (if only Cabal could take advantage of it).
> 
> Yes, the nix approach would subsume sandboxes.
> 
> I cover this in this post
> http://www.well-typed.com/blog/preview/how-we-might-abolish-cabal-hell-2/

Oops, permanent link:

http://www.well-typed.com/blog/2015/01/how-we-might-abolish-cabal-hell-part-2/