Libraries folk: please respond to Kazu's questions. Kazu: there is a standardisation process, for proposing library changes, described here: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions Simon -----Original Message----- From: Kazu Yamamoto [mailto:kazu@iij.ad.jp] Sent: 22 July 2010 03:38 To: Simon Peyton-Jones Subject: Cross platform file manipulations Hello Simon, I have posted this to Haskell cafe but I did not have good responses. So, I need your suggestion. I'm converting my Ruby script to Haskell. I found several problems of Haskell which does not exist in another script languages: - getModificationTime exists in System.Directory. But getAccessTime, getStatusChangeTime, getCreationTime do not exist. - getModificationTime returns obsoleted type, ClockTime. It should return modern type, UTCTime, I believe. - Path separator is not unified. Even though Windows accepts '/' as a file separator, getCurrentDirectory in System.Directory returns '\\' as a file separator. So, we need to specify regular expression like this: "[/\\]foo[/\\]bar[/\\]baz". - getHomeDirectory returns HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH instead of the HOME environment variable on Windows. To fix these portability problems, I'm creating cross platform library to manipulate files: http://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/file Here are questions: 1) I use System.File as module name at this momoent. Is this too radical? Should I use System.EasyFile or System.PortableFile? 2) Are there any standardization process for this? Should I wait for the conclusion before releasing this package? Or can I register the package to hackageDB whenever I like? 3) Do you know other people who are interested in this area? Thanks in advance. --Kazu