Extending Cabal

[John Meacham]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 05:34:06PM +0100, Henrik Nilsson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Simon Marlow wrote:
> 
> > It's a trivial change to make, it doesn't break anything, and it lets
> > us support more existing projects without substantial reorganisation
> > of their file structure.  Sounds like a no-brainer to me.
> 
> I've never liked the close de-facto connection between the hierarchical
> module name space and and the actual source tree. In fact, at times,
> in the Yampa build system, I tried very hard to work around that
> connection (as Simon might recall, something involving allowing "." in
> file names as an alternative to subdirectories, I believe). The proposal
> seems like a step in the right direction. Go for it!

Jhc has just this extension.

it looks for Control.Monad.Writer in all of 

Control/Monad/Writer.hs
Control/Monad.Writer.hs
Control.Monad.Writer.hs

I would like to see it in other compilers too... 
        John


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