SearchPath (was RE: hackage, cabal-get, and security)

[Simon Marlow]

On 17 May 2005 17:14, S. Alexander Jacobson wrote:

>>  - versioning
> 
> With SearchPath, you supply the URLs of the module maps you want to
> use.  SearchPath then uses these map to locate, download and "install"
> needed libraries without further user intervention.
> 
> A module map is just a file mapping module names to the base URLs of
> directories in which they reside.  If you want to supply the URL of a
> particular version of a module map rather than "latest" you are free
> to do that.

But how do you know what module maps were being used by the author of
the module you download?  Don't you have to download their module map
file too?

Cheers,
	Simon