Re: Output of cabal sandbox commands

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Mikhail Glushenkov wrote:

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Johan Tibell wrote:

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Hi,

If we're going to be using sandboxes extensively (I think we should!) having each command output the sandbox location is a bit much. Perhaps make this line:

Using a sandbox located at /Users/tibbe/src/cassava/.cabal-sandbox

only appear at higher verbosity?

I'm not against this, but having no indication which mode (sandbox/"normal") is used might be a bit confusing.

What about making only sandbox-init print the full path and print something like "Note: using a sandbox" in other cases?

While a bit shorter, it's still a bit much I think. How about we only try it at higher verbosity levels and if users find it confusing we output it by default? Note that you shouldn't get any strange errors from being inside a sandbox, at most you could get some complaints about dependencies not being installed?