Neil Mitchell wrote:
Hi
There are a couple of things about that function...
First, I did see it, but its description is rather vague on what it
does. From the description, it sounds like it is possible that it
would not return an absolute path; I read it more as expanding
symlinks. If it does indeed return an absolute path, I think that
should be stated explicitly for clarity.
More fatally it's only implemented on GHC, not for any reason, but
because whoever originally implemented it only used GHC! It's
explicitly #ifdef'd to do nothing (just a return) on other compilers.
I also hate the name. I know plenty of people who wanted the function,
but none who ever found it...
I note that the deadline for discussion of System.FilePath has now passed (well,
a long time ago :-), so it looks like it's going into base. Any final
objections before we do this?
Regarding canonicalizePath, I'd be perfectly happy to change its name and/or
somehow make it more easily discoverable: does anyone want to make a proposal?
Cheers,
Simon
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