On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 21:58 +0100, Claus Reinke wrote: > >> - some entries '/', some use '\\', some use a combination of > >> '/' and *unescaped* '\' (the latter two come from ghc's > >> cabal configure run either with or without --prefix) > > > > That's fine. They use \\ when using Haskell String format. When not then > > windows accepts both \ and / as path separators, it's not an escape > > char. > > Since windows is so forgiving, why not be consistent and always > use '/'?
We do. But if someone passes Cabal a path containing '\' then we don't interpret or check it, we just use it. > That also reduces the number of escapes as well as the > danger of missing escapes when going via several levels of > shells/interpretation. Only the double quotes to protect spaces > remain necessary. The convention everywhere in Cabal (and in the ghc-pkg registration files) is to allow Haskell String syntax. It's only essential when one wants to use characters that would otherwise be interpreted as separators. > > It's not strictly necessary for ghc-pkg to know where index files are > > that cover various packages but it would be nice to do something better > > there. People ask for Cabal to maintain an index over all packages > > though it's not clear where it should put this. > > For context: I've just extended the haskellmode plugins for Vim > to handle docs for libraries outside code+extra (not yet online), > and while it was no big deal working around all those inconsistencies, > it certainly seemed unnecessary and ugly. > > Right now, only core+extralibs have a unified index, and that can > be found by all kinds of ugly guesses (though ghc-paths will help > there in the future). Once Cabal generates and maintains a master > index, perhaps there could simply be a standard file pointing to it, > in the haddock-html dirs? It would not be per-package of course so I don't think it makes sense to put it in package registration files. Duncan _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
