[Haskell-cafe] Cabal sandboxes over cabal-dev

Johan Tibell johan.tibell at gmail.com
Wed Oct 30 10:13:11 UTC 2013


I don't think so (barring bugs).


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Tikhon Jelvis <tikhon at jelv.is> wrote:

> Are there any potential disadvantages?
>
> I'm probably going to switch over regardless, but it would be nice to
> know. I recently saw a demo of it, and it seemed like a great addition to
> cabal.
> On Oct 30, 2013 2:06 AM, "Johan Tibell" <johan.tibell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> (Note: I'm one of the developers/designers of cabal sandboxes.)
>>
>> Cabal sandboxes were developed after cabal-dev and was generally an
>> effort to bring sandboxes to the masses by integrating them into cabal
>> proper. There are a couple of benefits to this integration:
>>
>>  * New features are designed with sandboxes in mind.
>>  * We can generally get a smoother integration with rest of Cabal.
>>  * We support add-source deps as links rather than copies (see the docs).
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Graham Berks <graham at fatlazycat.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Can someone point me in the direction of why you would use one over the
>>> other ??
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Graham
>>>
>>>
>>>
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