hackage-server: index format

Ross Paterson ross at soi.city.ac.uk
Fri Nov 19 08:46:07 EST 2010


On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 07:46:33PM -0600, Antoine Latter wrote:
> The index tar-ball on Hackage has an odd naming convention. Package
> descriptions are given paths of the form:
> 
> ./$pkg/$version/$pkg.cabal
> 
> including the leading "./".
> I'm guessing that this is done as a method of distinguishing
> non-package meta-data.
> 
> Is this a convention we need to preserve?

I've removed the leading "./"; let's see if it breaks anything.



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