On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 02:25 +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 21:58 +0100, Claus Reinke wrote:
- some entries '/', some use '\\', some use a combination of '/' and *unescaped* '\' (the latter two come from ghc's cabal configure run either with or without --prefix)
That's fine. They use \\ when using Haskell String format. When not then windows accepts both \ and / as path separators, it's not an escape char.
Since windows is so forgiving, why not be consistent and always use '/'?
We do. But if someone passes Cabal a path containing '\' then we don't interpret or check it, we just use it.
Erm, of course I mean we always use '\', the native path separator on windows. I suppose we could convert paths that we're given to use '\' rather than '/' but it's only cosmetic. Duncan