Re: [xmonad] cabal sandbox

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Carsten Mattner wrote:

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Trying to build and run XMonad from within a cabal sandbox using the sandbox feature found in cabal HEAD doesn't manage to build the xmonad binary from xmonad.hs. I belive it's caused by the ghc calls in XMonad.Core.

xmonad is primarily a library with a stub executable; if you built the library in a sandbox, you have very little choice but to run it in that sandbox. I don't see how this is a bug; it certainly cannot be "fixed", unless you expect xmonad to suddenly learn how to track down *at compile time* that it is being built in a sandbox, and either (a) secretly clone a copy of it somewhere else so it will work even when you tear that sandbox down later, or (b) hardcode a reference to that sandbox into the generated xmonad and hope the sandbox is still there when the user goes to build their xmonad.hs.

(I encourage you to think about the details here.)

Thanks Brandon I did think about actually and to be precise I did try to build and run it in and from the sandbox.