Proposal: Reserved module namespace for packages on Hackage
Isaac Dupree
isaacdupree at charter.net
Mon Aug 18 20:03:41 EDT 2008
David Menendez wrote:
> Implementation costs are minor.
There is a serious cost: Sometimes another package is
*supposed to* provide the same interface, including the same
module names (e.g. forks or reimplementations. e.g. SOE).
If Hackage rejected them, we would have a serious problem
once people started depending on any package using a Lib. name.
But it's not hard to pretty much avoid conflicts; you don't
even need the Lib. prefix, you can just use the package name
as your top-level module name. (right? or does hackage
arbitrarily reject some module names?)
-Isaac
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