On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 06:21:33PM -0500, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote:
"cabal configure" is used by a lot of programmers. Today. Why?
Because they use it on their own projects. They use cabal-install as a builder, not exactly an installer.
Don't most devs nowadays use sandboxing, a.k.a. cabal-dev? I know I do, I've found cabal to be impossible to work with as a development tool without sandboxing. I think there was effort to bring cabal-dev like functionality to standard cabal in the next big release. Ah yes, here: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/SandboxedBuildsAndIsolatedEnvir... In general, I consider sandboxing really important, even without dependency hell: I will sometimes want experimental and/or old versions of libraries to depend on that I don't want installed globally. Best, Aleks