cabal-dev: Manage sandboxed Haskell build environments

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Deprecated in favor of cabal-install

cabal-dev is a tool for managing development builds of Haskell projects. It supports maintaining sandboxed cabal-install repositories, and sandboxed ghc package databases.

By default, it uses a cabal-dev directory under the current working directory as the sandbox.

For most packages, just use cabal-dev instead of cabal, and you will get a sandboxed build that will not install anything (even automatically installed dependencies) into the user or global ghc package databases.

If your build depends on patched or unreleased libraries, you can add them to your sandboxed build environment by installing them to the sandbox directly:so

cd /path/to/dependency
cabal-dev install --sandbox=/path/to/sandbox

Then build your library/application with the specified sandbox.

Additional documentation can be found in the README.md on github:

http://github.com/creswick/cabal-dev/blob/master/README.md

Flags

Manual Flags

NameDescriptionDefault
no-cabal-dev

Do not build cabal-dev (just build ghc-pkg-6_8-compat). This is useful for bootstrapping on GHC 6.8.

Disabled
build-tests

Build and install the test executable

Disabled

Use -f <flag> to enable a flag, or -f -<flag> to disable that flag. More info

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Versions [RSS] 0.7, 0.7.1, 0.7.2, 0.7.2.1, 0.7.3.1, 0.7.3.2, 0.7.4.0, 0.7.4.1, 0.8, 0.9, 0.9.1, 0.9.2
Dependencies base (>=3 && <5), bytestring (>=0.9 && <0.11), Cabal (>=1.10.0.0 && <1.17), containers (==0.1.0.2 || ==0.2.0.1 || >=0.3 && <0.6), directory (>=1.0 && <1.3), filepath (>=1.1 && <1.4), HTTP (>=4000.0.9 && <4000.3), mtl (>=1.1 && <2.2), network (>=2.2 && <2.5), pretty (>=1.0 && <1.2), process (>=1.0 && <1.2), setenv (>=0.1 && <0.2), tar (>=0.4 && <0.5), template-haskell, transformers (>=0.2 && <0.4), Win32 (>=2.1 && <2.4), zlib (>=0.5 && <0.6) [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright 2010-2013 Galois, Inc.
Author Josh Hoyt, Jonathan Daugherty, Rogan Creswick
Maintainer joshhoyt@gmail.com, jtd@galois.com, creswick@galois.com
Category Development
Home page http://github.com/creswick/cabal-dev
Bug tracker http://github.com/creswick/cabal-dev/issues
Source repo head: git clone git://github.com/creswick/cabal-dev.git
Uploaded by RoganCreswick at 2013-02-28T00:24:42Z
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Reverse Dependencies 1 direct, 0 indirect [details]
Executables fake-ghc-cabal-dev, cabal-dev-test, ghc-pkg-6_8-compat, cabal-dev
Downloads 18704 total (31 in the last 30 days)
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