#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: ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment (by guest): Hoogle uses lowercase for packages and initial-upper-case for modules. i.e. +tagsoup will search the tagsoup package, +TagSoup will search the tagsoup module. I think cabal packages should be strongly suggested to be all lower-case. This has lead to a great source of confusion, with everyone picking entirely different naming conventions: http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2008/05/interactive-tagsoup-parsing.html i.e. about 1/6 of packages have an initial capital. I'd mandate cabal packages to be case insensitive (they probably are on windows anyway!) and start displaying them all lower case. The cabal convention for fields is hyphen-separators, so that should be the standard way of distinguishing packages. -- Neil -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/258#comment:4 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects