How does it differ to getCurrentDirectory/setCurrentDirectory in System.Directory? On 4 December 2013 14:38, Benjamin Franksen < benjamin.franksen@helmholtz-berlin.de> wrote:
Module System.Posix.Directory of the unix package defines
getWorkingDirectory :: IO FilePath changeWorkingDirectory :: FilePath -> IO ()
I believe the functionality is quite portable and not limited to unix-like systems. I know that e.g. Windows has chdir and getcwd. Module Filesystem of the system-fileio package has
getWorkingDirectory :: IO FilePath setWorkingDirectory :: FilePath -> IO ()
I propose to add these functions to System.Environmant or maybe System.Directory.
Rationale:
(1) This is standard functionality that should at least be in the Haskell Platform, if not in the standard libraries.
(2) I would like to avoid depending on an extra package just to have these two very basic functions available in a OS independent way.
(3) "system-fileio".Filesystem does not seem to be the right place for this.
The last point may be arguable, but the first two are plain common sense IMO.
Cheers Ben -- "Make it so they have to reboot after every typo." ? Scott Adams
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