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

[Yuri de Wit]

I quite like the approach taken by 'brew' where you can 'link' and 'unlink'
executables to and from a specific folder in the path:

*brew install apple-gcc42
> **brew link apple-gcc42
> **brew unlink apple-gcc42 *


The installed package has the knowledge of what needs to be linked and
unlinked to/from the path (btw, it is a path managed by brew in
/usr/local/bin similar to .cabal/bin or Library/Haskell/bin) and it is
quite easy to manage the path with it.





On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:

> symlinks are generally how this gets "solved" in practice.
>
>
> On Friday, November 1, 2013, Carter Schonwald wrote:
>
>> 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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