Re: [Haskell-cafe] Global Package Install

On Feb 19, 2021, at 4:54 PM, Joachim Breitner wrote:

I couldn't find a README, hard to see what it does exactly. Is it just more convenience around the idiom of using

cabal install --env . --lib ghc-heap-view

to get a .ghc.environment file in the local directory (which is, as long as you use ghc or ghci in that directory, as good as the good old cabal v1-install, it seems)?

Maybe? I don't know -- that's part of the beauty of it (for me). I just type `cabal-env lens` and then I can access lens modules from ghci, no matter where I start ghci. So it can't be exactly what you wrote, because whatever cabal-env does is directory-agnostic. Richard