Neil Mitchell wrote:
Hi
There are a couple of things about that function...
First, I did see it, but its description is rather vague on what it does. From the description, it sounds like it is possible that it would not return an absolute path; I read it more as expanding symlinks. If it does indeed return an absolute path, I think that should be stated explicitly for clarity.
More fatally it's only implemented on GHC, not for any reason, but because whoever originally implemented it only used GHC! It's explicitly #ifdef'd to do nothing (just a return) on other compilers. I also hate the name. I know plenty of people who wanted the function, but none who ever found it...
I note that the deadline for discussion of System.FilePath has now passed (well, a long time ago :-), so it looks like it's going into base. Any final objections before we do this? Regarding canonicalizePath, I'd be perfectly happy to change its name and/or somehow make it more easily discoverable: does anyone want to make a proposal? Cheers, Simon