[Haskell-cafe] Cabal sandboxes over cabal-dev (Rogan Creswick)

[Rogan Creswick]

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Gregory Guthrie <guthrie at mum.edu> wrote:

>    "I *strongly* suggest everyone start transitioning from cabal-dev to
> cabal sandboxes."
>
> Is there any reason that this is not just the default install mode for
> Cabal?
>

I'm on the fence about this -- iirc, ruby has a similar concept (revn?)
that has this default, and it can be quite confusing (and, in my
experience, generates a fair bit of clutter, although that would probably
go down with experience.)

Perhaps if cabal prompted for confirmation when creating a new sandbox (but
only if running in an interactive context)? I could see my self
inadvertently cabal-installing utilities (eg: newt, bnfc, etc...) in
sandboxes on accident.

--Rogan



>
> Anything that prevents the current cabal-swamp of broken dependencies is a
> great help. I have tried to use Haskell in some classes, but it is hard
> when students (and I) cannot install packages, and the only answer is the
> Microsoft-like; "delete everything and start over; reinstall". It certainly
> reduces their confidence that Haskell is a feasible working environment.
>
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