darcs patch: make Alex only occupy {alex, Alex, ALEX}* names (still assuming Prelude)

[Duncan Coutts]

On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 18:12 -0500, Isaac Dupree wrote:
> Duncan Coutts wrote:
> > I've had code break by changing -agc options to happy because it started
> > importing Haskell98 modules and my package did not depend on the
> > haskell98 package.
> 
> in that case, should we switch to importing the hierarchical names in 
> Happy/Alex-generated code, since everyone uses those these days?  I 
> could make a patch to do that too.

I think so. Everyone always uses the base package but not necessarily
the haskell98 package. (nhc98 hackers may disagree however)

> I wonder if the change I originally proposed should go through the 
> library submission process, which I'm not familiar enough with... 
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions , okay, probably yes?

I'm not sure that's necessary. If there is general agreement and the
maintainer accepts the patches that would seem to be sufficient.

> for alex, I can't figure out how to run the tests, as the Makefile in 
> alex/tests/ doesn't work (after all it was cabalized?).
> 
> Also the darcs alex/alex.cabal says version: 2.1.0, whereas 
> http://haskell.org/alex/ says the latest released version is 2.2 (not 
> even 2.2.0, and maybe we would say 2.2.0.0 these days!)

Ask Simon Marlow.


Duncan