Re: cabal sandbox and the dist directory

I found the dist directory still being there a nice feature. For each project I want to start I want the newest stuff, but some of my longer running things tend to require older dependencies and I don't want to have to upgrade. This means that I have multiple small project that could share a 700MB sandbox, while my larger projects can have their own. What I do is use a single sandbox and symlink the cabal.sandbox.config file in place. This means there is no .cabal-sandbox next to my code, but there is a dist directory, which I use to run the executable and inspect the build artifacts. [1] Moving dist into cabal-sandbox would mean that I would have to either symlink my dist in also, or use the full path to my sandbox location every time I want to look at the build artifacts. How would you easily share a sandbox between multiple projects if dist is moved into the sandbox? Greetings, Bram [1] I did: mkdir project mkdir cabal-sandbox cd cabal-sandbox; cabal sandbox init cd ../project ln -s ../cabal-sandbox/cabal.sandbox.config On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Johan Tibell wrote:

Hi Daniel,

I think we eventually want to move dist/ inside the sandbox and eventually move the sandbox out of the package directory too. This is too support a world which is less focused on a single package. See my answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25278996/cabal-test-in-a-sandbox?noredire...

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Daniel Trstenjak wrote:

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Hi,

currently it's conceptually and practically a bit unpleasant, that the sandbox is a bit holey, because the 'dist' directory remains when deleting the sandbox.

Is there a special reason for this behaviour?

In the case of a sandbox, why is there a 'dist' directory at all, respectively why isn't it located inside of the '.cabal-sandbox' directory?

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