Hello David, Sunday, November 26, 2006, 5:44:55 PM, you wrote:
* FilePath operations implemented via Stringable class
Except that for POSIX systems Stringable isn't the appropriate class for FilePath operations, but rather ByteString.
oh, sorry, i considered ByteString here as a sort of string, but unix filename is just a byte sequence. nevertheless, in order to implement operations of FilePath module, we should rely on some *encoding*. if some unixes may use encoding other than utf8/latin1/other ascii-compatible we have a problem od recognizing this encoding. one cannot extract, for example, basename without knowing encoding of '.' and '/'
If you're thinking to rewrite the IO libraries using a class to handle the FilePaths (which sounds like a wonderful idea), it would make sense to try to think of a portable way to do this.
to be exact, IO library (like a System.IO module) has only a few filepath-related operations - openFile/show/hShow. the main devil is in FilePath manipulations and filesystem handling. yes, i already wrote some unicode-enabled code for windows in this area, and emerging some darcs-based library to promote further development of such code may be helpful. if there are peoples that can manage such repository and peoples what will work on unix-related problems, we can start such project -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com