RE: Filename handling (was: Remaining bugs in Cabal under Windows)
On 17 August 2004 12:44, Graham Klyne wrote:
Anyway, I'd like to see the common library functions provide at least minimal capabilities to allow multi-platform applications to do the right thing when handling filenames. I'm pretty agnostic about what they actually look like, but as an example I've found the Python and/or Java libraries to be pretty usable in this respect.
I think there's general agreement that this would be a good thing, but discussion never seems to reach a conclusion. Anyone like to whip up a concrete proposal? Cheers, Simon
--- Simon Marlow
I think there's general agreement that this would be a good thing, but discussion never seems to reach a conclusion. Anyone like to whip up a concrete proposal?
The functions collected in Distribution.Simple.Utils are good starting point. I would like to have something like Data.FilePath in the base package but this module should be marked as *experimental* for a while. Haddock also have some filepath related functions which are basicaly the same as these in Cabal. Cheers, Krasimir __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
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