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> It comes with its own Python interpreter and package database

Assuming it's similar for the IHaskell version, is it tricky integrating with cabal sandboxes (or for that matter, on the python side, virtualenv)?

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Both of those rely on having proper cabal/ghc or python/virtualenv preinstalled on the host computer; you could ship cabal/ghc and python/virtualenv and then use a sandbox or virtualenv, but at that point you might as well just use separate package databases. (This at least was the original motivation for the split – I suspect you could do similar things with virtualenv/sandboxes, it's certainly not the only point in the design space.)

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