On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 13:46 +0000, Ross Paterson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 07:46:33PM -0600, Antoine Latter wrote:
> > The index tar-ball on Hackage has an odd naming convention. Package
> > descriptions are given paths of the form:
> >
> > ./$pkg/$version/$pkg.cabal
> >
> > including the leading "./".
> > I'm guessing that this is done as a method of distinguishing
> > non-package meta-data.
> >
> > Is this a convention we need to preserve?
>
> I've removed the leading "./"; let's see if it breaks anything.
I expect it'll be fine. cabal-install uses:
case Tar.entryContent entry of
Tar.NormalFile content _
| takeExtension fileName == ".cabal"
-> case splitDirectories (normalise fileName) of
[pkgname,vers,_] ->
and
splitDirectories (normalise "./$pkg/$version/$pkg.cabal")
=
["$pkg","$version","$pkg.cabal"]
Duncan
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