#167: cabal-install should treat package names case insenitively in the UI wherever possible ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: cabal-install | Version: 1.2.0 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: normal Ghcversion: 6.4.2 | Platform: Linux ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Old description:
Currently saying {{{cabal list haxml}}} works fine and returns hits for {{{HaXml}}} which is good. The same does not apply when it comes to {{{cabal list haxml}}}. So what it should do is to look case- insnesitively for haxml. If the match is not exact case-sensitively and there are more than one packages matching case-insensitively then it should abort with a message listing the matches. This should not often happen since within any single HackageDB server, we check that packages names are unique case-insensitively but it's possible to get ambiguities if cabal-install has been configured to use multiple repos.
New description: Currently saying {{{cabal list haxml}}} works fine and returns hits for {{{HaXml}}} which is good. The same does not apply when it comes to {{{cabal install haxml}}}. So what it should do is to look case- insnesitively for haxml. If the match is not exact case-sensitively and there are more than one packages matching case-insensitively then it should abort with a message listing the matches. This should not often happen since within any single HackageDB server, we check that packages names are unique case-insensitively but it's possible to get ambiguities if cabal-install has been configured to use multiple repos. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/167#comment:1 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects