ghc-pkg 6.2 incorrectly parses commas within quotes
Sven Panne
Sven.Panne at aedion.de
Mon Jan 12 14:02:50 EST 2004
Ashley Yakeley wrote:
> Might it not be better to do it this way?
>
> deps = base,haskell98,network
>
> [${deps},"foo"] => (expand $-reference)
> [base,haskell98,network,"foo"] => (quote things)
> ["base","haskell98","network","foo"]
>
> The idea is that unquoted things get implicitly quoted, so you don't
> need to quote ${deps}.
I don't have very strong feelings about this, I just changed it in a
hopefully non-intrusive way. IMHO this feature is useless, anyway,
expanding during package installation time can easily be accomplished
by sed and friends...
Cheers,
S.
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