i'm a fan of find | xargs, so a portable haskell replacement unencumbered by viral licenses would be very welcome. i have no intention to participate in yet-another-licencing-discussion, i would just like to ask whether those limitations of your offering are an accident or intended?
http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/FileManip-0.1
Apparently it's under the *L*GPL not the GPL, so it's not the "viral" license that you were thinking of perhaps?
no, i browsed the license file before asking my question (no non-restrictive license needs to be longer than a page). if i wanted to use that library for anything i want to distribute, my only chance to avoid the source re-distribution and advertising clauses would be dynamic linking - the same reasons why some of us a looking forward to the gmp replacement. i'd rather roll my own find than look at the sources under the current license, which may or may not have been the author's intention when choosing that particular license. hence my question. similarly for the unix dependency - it could be inherent in the design, or an accident of the author's current platform. <soapbox> <title>platform-independent haskelling</title> if i may take this opportunity for a message to other haskell authors: haskell makes it possible to write portable code. there are some cases where platform dependencies are unavoidable, and where one might write code for one platform, hoping that others add the branches for their platforms. there are even fewer cases where the functionality provided does not apply to other platforms. but for the majority of code, the trick is simply not to use platform-specific tricks. a small price to pay for not being exclusive. </soapbox> ;-) claus