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

On 09/12/13 23:02, Michael Baker wrote:

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

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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.

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Sandboxes are for development. If you really want to make it easy for your users, publish your other package to Hackage. If that's not an option, perhaps require them to install the other package manually first? Maybe provide a script which fetches sources and cabal installs. -- Mateusz K.