On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 10:19:38PM +0000, Neil Mitchell wrote:
I've got some stuff that FilePath doesn't, namely making paths absolute, wildcard matching/globbing, and also a function that converts a POSIX wildcard into a regexp.
FilePath did have a function that made paths absolute, but it got removed as its already in the base libraries: http://haskell.org/hoogle/?canonicalizePath
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.
Wildcard matching/globbing was intentionally left out, so as to have less disagreements when trying to put it in to base :)
Heh, that's fine. I'm happy to donate that code in MissingH to your library and/or base if people want it. Thanks, BTW, for the library you're maintaining. I use it heavily. -- John