On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 02:25 +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote: > 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.
Erm, of course I mean we always use '\', the native path separator on windows. I suppose we could convert paths that we're given to use '\' rather than '/' but it's only cosmetic. Duncan _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
