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

Carter Schonwald carter.schonwald at gmail.com
Fri Nov 1 19:32:01 UTC 2013


This.

Actually the Mac brew folks are hitting this issue exactly.  Subtlty being
you want  to be able to install bin and share assets both to a custom
location. Unclear how to do that currently.

On Friday, November 1, 2013, Tom Ellis wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 06:37:13PM +0000, Tom Ellis wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 01:31:33PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> > >    "I could see myself inadvertently cabal-installing utilities (eg:
> newt, bnfc, etc...) in sandboxes on accident.
> > >
> > > What is wrong with this?
> >
> > My guess is that Rogan was suggesting they wouldn't appear on the PATH.
>
> I wonder if some compromise is possible whereby the binary builds in the
> sandbox but is installed to some user-wide location on the PATH.
>
> Tom
>
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