Unregistering a package

[Peter Simons]

Simon Marlow writes:

 > The general syntax of package ids is:

 >    pkgid ::= pkg ('-' version)?
 >    pkg ::= (alphanum|'-')+
 >    version ::= (digit+) ('.' digit+)* ('-' alphanum+)*

Thanks. I gave my package the version "hsdns-0.0-2005-02-10"
and that fixed the problem.


 > Perhaps we should change the syntax of package ids
 > though?

In my humble opinion, GHC shouldn't try to guess what
version identifiers mean; I would treat them as a literal
strings without any parsing. But that's probably just me.

Anyway, thanks for the clarification.

Peter