Cabal-Playground

Quickly set up a temporary Cabal project for playing around with a package.

Usage

cabal-playground [PKG1 PKG2 PKG3 ...]

Playground will then launch your configured editor with a minimal cabal project with the specified dependencies.

For example:

cabal-playground text containers lens

Installation

Clone this repository and run sh install. Make sure you have the $EDITOR environment variable set to your favorite editor. For example, set it to code to launch Visual Studio Code. If you already have an $EDITOR set up but would like to use a different editor for Playground, you can set the $PLAYGROUND_EDITOR environment variable instead.

Cleaning

To clean up old playground projects, simply delete the playground directory, which is set to be $HOME/.local/share/cabal-playground by default.

Supported Platforms

As this is just a simple shell script, this is only supported on Linux and MacOS.

Acknowledgments