[Haskell-cafe] [Haskell-community] technical thoughts on stack

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Tue Sep 13 19:20:11 UTC 2016


On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 3:14 PM, John Wiegley <johnw at newartisans.com> wrote:

> Some other tools provide an "env" sub-command, so that a person can run:
>
>     eval $(stack env)
>
> And now ghc, ghci, etc., would be on the PATH, and the user doesn't really
> need to care about where it lives.
>

There's more to it than $PATH --- and I am not sure that making it easy to
accidentally modify the sandboxed package database is in any way a good
idea.

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