On 2015-03-21 at 18:54:26 +0100, Mark Lentczner wrote: [...]
> The Platform arose in an era before sandboxes and before curated library > sets like Stackage and LTS. Last time we set direction was several years > ago. These new features and development have clearly changed the landscape > for use to reconsider what to do. [...] > Thoughts? My biggest complaint about the current HP is that it pollutes the global package database with additional packages which leak into `cabal sandbox`es. This causes `cabal sandbox` to provide quite different sandbox environments for HP environments compared to a non-HP environment without those additional packages pre-installed. Currently GHC/Cabal knows about a global package db and a user package db (the user pkg db is is what gets replaced/shadowed by cabal sandboxes). Maybe we need a 3rd package db sitting between the global and the user package db that interacts better with cabal sandboxes? Cheers, hvr _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
