[Haskell-cafe] Cabal sandboxes over cabal-dev

[Erik Hesselink]

There are two bugs that I have run into with large projects. If your
project is small, just use cabal sandboxes. If it is large (lots of
dependent packages being developed together), there is one that might
cause extra build time [0], and one that can render packages
unbuildable [1]. I still use cabal sandboxes, but these are the bugs
that cause me the most pain. But the joy of a linked add-source and a
working cabal repl outweigh this pain.

Erik

[0] https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1375
[1] https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1362

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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