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

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Thu Nov 15 07:42:11 EST 2007


On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 02:14 +0000, Claus Reinke wrote:

>      substring matching can optionally ignore cases to avoid the
>      rather unpredictable capitalisation of packages.

If this is up for discussion, it'd be useful if ghc-pkg did not allow
the same version of packages that differ only in the case of their name.
It'd make moving to treating package names case insensitively easier.

Duncan



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