Tue Jul 29 08:26:24 PDT 2008 Duncan Coutts
* Fix the semantics of the simple file globbing to be sane
I realised when I started to document it that the behaviour
was not terribly consistent or sensible. The meaning now is:
The limitation is that * wildcards are only allowed in
place of the file name, not in the directory name or
file extension. In particular, wildcards do not include
directories contents recursively. Furthermore, if a
wildcard is used it must be used with an extension, so
"data-files: data/*" is not allowed. When matching a
wildcard plus extension, a file's full extension must
match exactly, so "*.gz" matches "foo.gz" but not
"foo.tar.gz".
The reason for providing only a very limited form of wildcard
is to concisely express the common case of a large number of
related files of the same file type without making it too easy
to accidentally include unwanted files.
M ./Distribution/Simple/Utils.hs -12 +10
View patch online:
http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/_darcs/patches/20080729152624-adfee-82b21496e...
