[Haskell-cafe] cabal configure && cabal build && cabal install

[Aleksandar Dimitrov]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 06:21:33PM -0500, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote:
> "cabal configure" is used by a lot of programmers. Today. Why?
> 
> Because they use it on their own projects. They use cabal-install as
> a builder, not exactly an installer.

Don't most devs nowadays use sandboxing, a.k.a. cabal-dev? I know I do, I've found
cabal to be impossible to work with as a development tool without sandboxing. I
think there was effort to bring cabal-dev like functionality to standard cabal
in the next big release.

Ah yes, here:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/SandboxedBuildsAndIsolatedEnvironments

In general, I consider sandboxing really important, even without dependency
hell: I will sometimes want experimental and/or old versions of libraries to
depend on that I don't want installed globally.

Best,
Aleks
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