| > Can I ask what the Cabal team's position is with respect to the | question of allowing the same package to be installed several times, | each compiled against a different collection of dependencies? | | I think that we all agree that in the long term a Nix-like package | database is the ideal solution to the "Cabal hell" problem (I even | mentioned this in the "Future Work" section of the post you linked). | However, it seems to be much harder to implement than sandboxes.
I have not read the full GSoC page (thanks for that link), but are you all convinced that it *needs* to be that hard? The fundamental idea is, after all, so simple! (I could elaborate.) Perhaps the GSoc project was trying to be more ambitious. Or maybe I'm simply under-estimating. But fundamentally it seems simple, so I'm suggesting we should perhaps try a bit harder to ferret out the underlying simplicity rather than assuming it must be hard. Simon _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
