[Haskell-cafe] Cabal sandboxes over cabal-dev (Rogan Creswick)

[Carter Schonwald]

my prior email is about how the BREW folks are having a hard time using
cabal sandboxing to support providing brew formulae for things like pandoc
etc


On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Yuri de Wit <ydewit at gmail.com> wrote:

> I quite like the approach taken by 'brew' where you can 'link' and
> 'unlink' executables to and from a specific folder in the path:
>
> *brew install apple-gcc42
>> **brew link apple-gcc42
>> **brew unlink apple-gcc42 *
>
>
> The installed package has the knowledge of what needs to be linked and
> unlinked to/from the path (btw, it is a path managed by brew in
> /usr/local/bin similar to .cabal/bin or Library/Haskell/bin) and it is
> quite easy to manage the path with it.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
>
>> symlinks are generally how this gets "solved" in practice.
>>
>>
>> On Friday, November 1, 2013, Carter Schonwald wrote:
>>
>>> This.
>>>
>>> Actually the Mac brew folks are hitting this issue exactly.  Subtlty
>>> being you want  to be able to install bin and share assets both to a custom
>>> location. Unclear how to do that currently.
>>>
>>> On Friday, November 1, 2013, Tom Ellis wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 06:37:13PM +0000, Tom Ellis wrote:
>>>> > On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 01:31:33PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
>>>> > >    "I could see myself inadvertently cabal-installing utilities
>>>> (eg: newt, bnfc, etc...) in sandboxes on accident.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > What is wrong with this?
>>>> >
>>>> > My guess is that Rogan was suggesting they wouldn't appear on the
>>>> PATH.
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if some compromise is possible whereby the binary builds in the
>>>> sandbox but is installed to some user-wide location on the PATH.
>>>>
>>>> Tom
>>>>
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