Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal sandbox using absolute path on symlinked dir

Cabal sandboxes as it stands right now are not portable at all, global paths are only the beginning. For example you cannot use a sandbox created on another machine by default, unless you have *exactly* the same environment (e.g. use the same build of the Haskell Platform). I wrote a small tool called SandFix that we use internally at my workplace that fixes global paths and tries to fix all package dependencies as well so you can reuse a sandbox created on another machine. I uploaded it now to github: https://github.com/exFalso/sandfix. It works quite well for us. Note that it assumes a ghc environment. On 10 October 2014 21:00, Markus Läll wrote:

I would also prefer relative paths for sandboxes.

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Corentin Dupont < corentin.dupont@gmail.com> wrote:

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This project seems to do what you want (I didn't test it): https://github.com/philopon/sandbox-move

Although I think it would be better to have relative file paths in cabal.sandbox.config...

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

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On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Vlatko Basic wrote:

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There is no way to move the project to a different place without recreating the whole sandbox.

It would be nice if there were a tool to do this. It should not be difficult to programmatically adjust those paths and the ones in the ghc package directory, and reindex the latter.

-- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net

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