Good news, everyone!
...you may be interested to know this has finally come to fruition (just
in time for HIW):
http://blog.ezyang.com/2015/08/help-us-beta-test-no-reinstall-cabal/
Cheers,
hvr
On 2015-03-23 at 09:45:48 +0100, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
> Dear Cabal developers
>
> You'll prob
For the info of all, here is the proposal:
https://gist.github.com/fugyk/37510958b52589737274
The mentors are Ryan Trinkle and Thomas Tuegel. Hopefully as the project
proceeds, Vishal will be checking in with us, asking questions and seeking
clarification where necessary, etc.
--Gershom
On Thu,
On 7 May 2015 at 22:34, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
> Dear Cabal developers
>
> I guess everyone is busy, but I feel a bit stuck on knowing how to make
> progress on this thread.
Vishal Agrawal's GSoC proposal has been accepted. I guess we'll have
to wait and see what comes out of it now.
_
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Subject: RE: Cabal and simultaneous installations of the same package
Friends
We started this thread (below) a month ago, but it has once more run out of
steam. The last contribution was from Vishal Agrawal
I am already planning to do a GSoC project based on it
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| Subject: Cabal and simultaneous installations of the same package
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| Dear Cabal developers
|
| You'll probably have seen the thread about the Haskell Platform.
|
| Among other things,
On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 22:10 +, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 20:13 +, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
> > But I'm hazy about why sandboxes are needed at all. As I understand
> > it, they were invented to solve the very problem that is now solved
> > (if only Cabal could take advan
On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 20:13 +, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
> But I'm hazy about why sandboxes are needed at all. As I understand
> it, they were invented to solve the very problem that is now solved
> (if only Cabal could take advantage of it).
Yes, the nix approach would subsume sandboxes.
I
On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 08:45 +, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
> Dear Cabal developers
>
> You'll probably have seen the thread about the Haskell Platform.
>
> Among other things, this point arose:
>
> | Another thing we should fix is the (now false) impression that HP gets in
> | the way of ins
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Subject: Re: Cabal and simultaneous installations of the same package
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Simon Peyton Jones
wrote:
>
>
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Simon Peyton Jones
wrote:
>
> | Another thing we should fix is the (now false) impression that HP gets in
> | the way of installing other packages and versions due to cabal hell.
>
> People mean different things by "cabal hell", but the inability to
> sim
On 2015-03-23, at 09:52, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
> The point is that I may need to install a bunch of packages to build a
> program. If I’m using Cabal, none of those newly installed packages need be
> exposed; I simply need them there so I can compile my program (using Cabal).
> But at t
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Subject: Re: Cabal and simultaneous installations
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Simon Peyton Jones
wrote:
> But time has passed and it hasn't happened. Is this because I'm
> misunderstanding? Or because it is harder than I think? Or because there
> are much bigger problems? Or because there is insufficient effort
> available? Or what?
I
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Subject: Re: Cabal and simultaneous installations of the same package
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:53 AM Sim
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:53 AM Simon Peyton Jones
wrote:
> It's already a huge source of confusion for people using GHCi what they
> get messages about "ByteString is not ByteString."
>
>
>
> Reading your blog post [1] it seems that we are addressing different
> questions:
>
> · My prop
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Subject: Re: Cabal and simultaneous installations of the same package
I'm in favor of adding support to Cabal to allow for this situation. However: I
highly do
I'm in favor of adding support to Cabal to allow for this situation.
However: I highly doubt this will be the panacea as predicted. It's already
a huge source of confusion for people using GHCi what they get messages
about "ByteString is not ByteString." In fact, this confusion is so
prevalent that
Dear Cabal developers
You'll probably have seen the thread about the Haskell Platform.
Among other things, this point arose:
| Another thing we should fix is the (now false) impression that HP gets in
| the way of installing other packages and versions due to cabal hell.
People mean different
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