darcs patch: fix #1839, #1463, by supporting ghc-pkg bulkqueries with substring matching

[Ian Lynagh]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 04:27:57PM -0000, Claus Reinke wrote:
> i'm trying to figure out where this patch is stuck. could
> you please let me know whether or not the following 
> summary is accurate?

I agree with it: I think we want the functionality, we don't want to add
a dep on a regex library, and using anything other than * for a wildcard
would be confusing. I can't remember the details of the various Windows
behaviours off the top of my head, so I can't comment on what the best
solution would be.

By the way, how did it work with regexps? Rely on no files matching .*,
and the .* argument being left unchanged rather than being removed?


Thanks
Ian