discussion: package naming convention / force only lower case by warning?

Marc Weber marco-oweber at gmx.de
Sun Jul 8 10:53:44 EDT 2007


> Yes, unfortunately I originally picked the name FilePath, but all the
> standard GHC packages follow the filepath convention, hence it got
> modified. I strongly suggest that upper case letters be banned from
> Cabal packages, or this is going to happen again and again.

Could / should we add a warning when uploading packages to hackage?
or when building with cabal?
Then this problem would be banned ;)

I think it won't harm anyone but prevent some issues. Thus it's a good
thing.

Marc Weber


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