#780: Simpler support for isolated/sandboxed builds
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Reporter: duncan | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: cabal-install tool | Version:
Severity: normal | Keywords:
Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion:
Platform: |
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Cabal/cabal-install allows setting the install prefix and the package
database. Together these allow creating isolated builds. This is clearly
not sufficiently easy to use as there are now two projects that provide
wrappers over cabal-install to provide more direct support for this use
case:
* http://github.com/creswick/cabal-dev/blob/master/README.md
* http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Capri
The task is to investigate what user behaviour is desired and to integrate
this in the best way with Cabal/cabal-install.
This is probably related to:
* ticket #556 about local config files (e.g. persistently setting some
sandbox flag)
* ticket #734 about supporting multiple local .cabal files
* ticket #524 about supporting file, directory and url targets for
packages and .cabal files
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/780>
Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/>
Hackage: Cabal and related projects
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