[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: doctest-0.3.0

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com
Fri Jun 17 07:05:47 CEST 2011


On 17 June 2011 14:36, Luke Palmer <lrpalmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Simon Hengel <simon.hengel at wiktory.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> I just uploaded a new version of doctest[1] to Hackage.
>
> Sweet!
>
>>
>> I think using all lower-case package names is a good thing.
>
> I'm just curious -- why?

One reason: if that's the convention, then you don't have the problem
of "how do I list that package in my .cabal file, is it doctest,
Doctest or DocTest?"

Also, some distro package managers prefer lowercase package names.

-- 
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Ivan.Miljenovic at gmail.com
IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com



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