#258: case confusion - cabal vs Cabal ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: HEAD Severity: normal | Resolution: wontfix Keywords: | Difficulty: normal Ghcversion: 6.8.2 | Platform: ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Changes (by kolmodin): * status: new => closed * resolution: => wontfix Comment: The name of the package is indeed Cabal, with a capital C. Renaming either the name of the .cabal file or the repo dir is not trivial though. * Changing the name of the .cabal file would also require to rename the package, since hackage requires the file name to be consistent with the package name. This would effectively break all packages depending on Cabal, and of course make much hassle with forward and backwards compatibility. * Renaming the repo name would break the darcs installations of all our developers, something we are really not keen to do. We could set up a symlink to use the {{{Cabal}}} name, but I'd find that even more confusing than just having a single repository. http://www.orlyowl.com/upload/files/NOOOO!!!.JPG -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/258#comment:1 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects