RE: dashes in cabal package names

On 31 July 2004 18:42, Isaac Jones wrote:

Does anyone have any objection to allowing dashes within Cabal pacakge names? This might impact the parser for HC-PKG, but that's the way it is now, and seems to make the most sense.

I think the only change to HC-PKG would be to use a non-dash separator between the package and version; we can decide exactly how to do that at a later time.

Dashes in package names? Absolutely. I don't think you need a non-dash separator between the package name and the version number, just take the last dash in the package id as the name-version separator. (I really like the <pkgname>-<version> format, probably because it's so widespread these days). Cheers, SImon