[Hackage] #167: cabal-install should treat package names case insenitively in the UI wherever possible

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#167: cabal-install should treat package names case insenitively in the UI
wherever possible
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  Reporter:  duncan         |        Owner:        
      Type:  enhancement    |       Status:  new   
  Priority:  normal         |    Milestone:        
 Component:  cabal-install  |      Version:  1.2.0 
  Severity:  normal         |   Resolution:        
  Keywords:                 |   Difficulty:  normal
Ghcversion:  6.4.2          |     Platform:  Linux 
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Old description:

> Currently saying {{{cabal list haxml}}} works fine and returns hits for
> {{{HaXml}}} which is good. The same does not apply when it comes to
> {{{cabal list haxml}}}. So what it should do is to look case-
> insnesitively for haxml. If the match is not exact case-sensitively and
> there are more than one packages matching case-insensitively then it
> should abort with a message listing the matches. This should not often
> happen since within any single HackageDB server, we check that packages
> names are unique case-insensitively but it's possible to get ambiguities
> if cabal-install has been configured to use multiple repos.

New description:

 Currently saying {{{cabal list haxml}}} works fine and returns hits for
 {{{HaXml}}} which is good. The same does not apply when it comes to
 {{{cabal install haxml}}}. So what it should do is to look case-
 insnesitively for haxml. If the match is not exact case-sensitively and
 there are more than one packages matching case-insensitively then it
 should abort with a message listing the matches. This should not often
 happen since within any single HackageDB server, we check that packages
 names are unique case-insensitively but it's possible to get ambiguities
 if cabal-install has been configured to use multiple repos.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/167#comment:1>
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