#712: File names can contain spaces ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: HEAD Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Some operating systems support file names containing spaces. However, Cabal's package description parser breaks fields such as extra-lib-dirs on spaces, regardless of the presence or absence of quotation marks and the like. For instance, using the source tarball available from http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Cabal, we have: *Distribution.PackageDescription.Parse Distribution.Compat.ReadP> readP_to_S parseFilePathQ "\"C:\\Path With Spaces\\\"" [("\"C:\\Path"," With Spaces\\\"")] -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/712 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects