23 Mar
2015
23 Mar
'15
6:10 p.m.
On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 20:13 +0000, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
But I'm hazy about why sandboxes are needed at all. As I understand it, they were invented to solve the very problem that is now solved (if only Cabal could take advantage of it).
Yes, the nix approach would subsume sandboxes. I cover this in this post http://www.well-typed.com/blog/preview/how-we-might-abolish-cabal-hell-2/ Duncan