On 06/26/2015 06:08 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
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Hello *,
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[--snip--] I am *entirely* behind this in priciple and if it doesn't break too much of Hackage, also in practice, but... ... how much of Hackage *does* this break? The reason that I'm in favor in principle is that paths really *are* opaque things -- platforms have entirely different conventions. AFAICT the only thing that they seem to agree on is that there is a "hierarchy" of some sort. (And not much else, including such things as case (in-)sensivity or character sets.). For example, in POSIX they're just strings of bytes without any specified encoding, and I'd love if they could be make to work like that when dealing with files in Haskell. Regards,