[xmonad] cabal sandbox

[Carsten Mattner]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Trying to build and run XMonad from within a cabal sandbox
>> using the sandbox feature found in cabal HEAD doesn't manage
>> to build the xmonad binary from xmonad.hs. I belive it's
>> caused by the ghc calls in XMonad.Core.
>
>
> xmonad is primarily a library with a stub executable; if you built the
> library in a sandbox, you have very little choice but to run it in that
> sandbox.  I don't see how this is a bug; it certainly cannot be "fixed",
> unless you expect xmonad to suddenly learn how to track down *at compile
> time* that it is being built in a sandbox, and either (a) secretly clone a
> copy of it somewhere else so it will work even when you tear that sandbox
> down later, or (b) hardcode a reference to that sandbox into the generated
> xmonad and hope the sandbox is still there when the user goes to build their
> xmonad.hs.
>
> (I encourage you to think about the details here.)

Thanks Brandon I did think about actually and to be precise
I did try to build and run it in and from the sandbox.