Re: [Haskell-beginners] Cabal build dependency using a git repo

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Peter Jones wrote:

Michael Baker writes:

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I have a library which isn't on Hackage that I would like to use as a

build

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dependency in another project. In Rubygems you can provide a git repository in the absence of an actual Rubygems repository.

Use a git submodule (or place the source code to the package anywhere on your file system) then use `cabal sandbox add-source <path>`. Provided of course that you're using cabal sandboxes.

What is commonly done if you aren't using sandboxes? I would rather not use them in an effort to make installing this project easier on my users, because the current Haskell Platform doesn't have sandboxes yet.