[Haskell-cafe] cabal sandbox using absolute path on symlinked dir

[Andras Slemmer]

Cabal sandboxes as it stands right now are not portable at all, global
paths are only the beginning. For example you cannot use a sandbox created
on another machine by default, unless you have *exactly* the same
environment (e.g. use the same build of the Haskell Platform).

I wrote a small tool called SandFix that we use internally at my workplace
that fixes global paths and tries to fix all package dependencies as well
so you can reuse a sandbox created on another machine. I uploaded it now to
github: https://github.com/exFalso/sandfix. It works quite well for us.
Note that it assumes a ghc environment.

On 10 October 2014 21:00, Markus Läll <markus.l2ll at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would also prefer relative paths for sandboxes.
>
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Corentin Dupont <
> corentin.dupont at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This project seems to do what you want (I didn't test it):
>> https://github.com/philopon/sandbox-move
>>
>> Although I think it would be better to have relative file paths in
>> cabal.sandbox.config...
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Vlatko Basic <vlatko.basic at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> There is no way to move the project to a different place without
>>>> recreating the whole sandbox.
>>>
>>>
>>> It would be nice if there were a tool to do this. It should not be
>>> difficult to programmatically adjust those paths and the ones in the ghc
>>> package directory, and reindex the latter.
>>>
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