On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 13:46 +0000, Ross Paterson wrote:
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 07:46:33PM -0600, Antoine Latter wrote:
The index tar-ball on Hackage has an odd naming convention. Package descriptions are given paths of the form:
./$pkg/$version/$pkg.cabal
including the leading "./". I'm guessing that this is done as a method of distinguishing non-package meta-data.
Is this a convention we need to preserve?
I've removed the leading "./"; let's see if it breaks anything.
I expect it'll be fine. cabal-install uses: case Tar.entryContent entry of Tar.NormalFile content _ | takeExtension fileName == ".cabal" -> case splitDirectories (normalise fileName) of [pkgname,vers,_] -> and splitDirectories (normalise "./$pkg/$version/$pkg.cabal") = ["$pkg","$version","$pkg.cabal"] Duncan