cabal-dev: Manage sandboxed Haskell build environments

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 so they can be installed by cabal-dev or cabal. Just run:

cabal-dev add-source /path/to/source/code

cabal-dev add-source also supports importing tarballs into a local cabal repository.

Alternatively, install unreleased dependencies into the target cabal-dev sandbox instead of using add-source:

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

Name	Description	Default
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

Downloads

• cabal-dev-0.9.1.tar.gz [browse] (Cabal source package)
• Package description (as included in the package)

Maintainer's Corner

Package maintainers

• JonathanDaugherty, JoshHoyt, RoganCreswick

For package maintainers and hackage trustees

• edit package information

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