Hello Neil, Thursday, June 29, 2006, 8:42:08 PM, you wrote:
I have written a System.FilePath module in part based on the one in Yhc, and in part based on the one in Cabal (thanks to Lemmih). The aim is to try and get this module into the base package, as FilePath's are
i think that filepath manipulation is among the things that absolutely need to be included in base libs (together with jregex and string manipulation). but just to let you know: 1) there are two independent filepath modules used with little modifications in all projects i seen. They both included in MissingH (FilePath.hs and NameManip.hs). Andrew Pimlott published it's own module in libraries list (look at February "System.FilePath survey" topic). May be, you can borrow some new functionality from these sources 2) As you can see in this February discussion, one of debatable question was support of ADTs for filanames. We can talk about this now. Currently there is ByteStrings with forecoming UTF-8 support and it's possible to implement FilePath module so it will work both with filenames represented by String and ByteString. It's also possible to add support of such filenames to IO library (at least, my own) (even without all these changes, i will be glad to see this module in base package, as long as it's interface leave space for future innovations) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com