Re: Providing a smooth default user experience

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 09:01:13AM -0800, Johan Tibell wrote:

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Simon Hengel wrote:

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On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 07:54:34AM -0800, Johan Tibell wrote:

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We may very well end up doing this. There's no rush to make it default. We can make a release with opt-in sandboxes and decide three months later if we want to make it the default.

Nice.

So I guess the idea is that we will have a release candidate (as Mikhail suggested). If there are major issues that we can't get fixed before the release, we make it opt-in?

We might make it opt-in in any case, since we cannot really test everyone's usage patterns. I think what we'll do is to make it opt-in and at the same time announce our intentions to make it default and encourage people to try it out for an extended period of time.

Ok, makes sense. I would assume that implying `cabal install --only-dependencies` on `cabal build` is only sane if sandboxing is used. So we would defer that too? Cheers, Simon