Re: System.FilePath propsal (Was: Cabal feedback notes)

29 Oct 2004


      On 2004-10-29, Krasimir Angelov  wrote:
...
Good point. In order to do proper normalization we
need IO monad. The absolutizePath function is already
in IO. I propose to remove normalizePath function and
to keep only absolutizePath function (in
System.Directory). On Windows it can be implemented on
top of GetFullPathName and on Unix there is realpath
function.
They're both useful functions, and I think both should be kept,
and the differences documented.  (See also zsh's "chase_dots"
and "chase_links" options.)

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Aaron Denney
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