cabal sandbox and the dist directory
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? Greetings, Daniel
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 < daniel.trstenjak@gmail.com> wrote:
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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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 <johan.tibell@gmail.com> 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 <daniel.trstenjak@gmail.com> wrote:
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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Hi Bram,
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?
So it's more about how convient it's to locate the dist directory, because it should still be possible to share a sandbox between multiple projects, because each project should have a separate dist directory inside of the sandbox. Greetings, Daniel
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