I've since uploaded two new versions with the following changes:
0.1.2: Fixed an issue where it would clobber symbolic links to files,
which is usually not what you want. Test case added for this.
0.1.3: ByteString support! FFI is also now used under the hood to do
things in a slightly less
Nice library!
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:35:34PM +0100, Robin Green wrote:
A variant, writeFileWithBackup, also allows you to supply a custom
backup computation to backup old copy(ies) of the destination file
It would be nice to have the backup action receive the file name
as a parameter, so
I'm pleased to announce the first public release of cautious-file:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cautious-file
This library currently provides a writeFile function that is intended to
have three advantages over Prelude.writeFile:
1. There was a controversy a few months ago about the new
