[Haskell-cafe] ANN: castle 0.1.0.0

[Christopher Allen]

I typically do the same, fairly frequently, using a Makefile to handle
configuring builds/cabal/whatever to all point to the same sandbox or
pulling it from my environment variables.


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <
ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 16 January 2014 07:24, Eric Rochester <erochest at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'd like to announce the first release of castle
> > (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/castle and
> > https://github.com/erochest/castle). From the README:
> >>
> >> I really like having sandboxes baked into cabal-install (see Cabal
> >> Sandboxes for more information).
> >>
> >> I got tired of waiting for big packages like Yesod and Lens to compile
> in
> >> project after project that used them. However, I still didn't want to
> >> install them in the user database. I wanted to maintain some sandboxing
> >> among a group of projects that all share a common set of packages, but I
> >> wanted to be able to switch from them or upgrade them easily.
> >>
> >> That's the itch I was trying to scratch with castle.
> >>
> >> It allows you to share one Cabal sandbox between multiple projects. This
> >> keeps the package versions for all of these projects in line. It also
> means
> >> that you don't have to constantly be re-installing everything, but you
> still
> >> get the ability to blow away a set of packages without borking your
> whole
> >> system.
> >
> >
> > This tool is still pretty rough around the edges, but I've been using it
> > some, and it's to the point that more feedback would be helpful. Let me
> know
> > what bugs and rough patches you find.
>
> How does this differ from doing "cabal sandbox init
> --sandbox=../my-common-sandbox" for all these projects?
>
> --
> Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
> Ivan.Miljenovic at gmail.com
> http://IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com
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