Why hide Distribution.Compat.FilePath, or what to use instead?

[Pepe Iborra]

Hi Dimitry,

you don't want to use Distribution.Compat.FilePath, it is not there  
anymore in future versions of Cabal, starting with 1.1.7. In my  
experience, the only things that you will miss in filepath are those  
exeExtension, dllExtension... functions. It may be reasonable to  
import those from  Compat.FilePath if you want, because they are kept  
(in another module I believe) in Cabal 1.1.7. Or better, update to  
Cabal 1.1.7 and import theM from the right module

To unhide the module, you need to list Cabal as a dependency in the  
Cabal descriptor.

Cheers
pepe

On 16/07/2007, at 5:38, Dimitry Golubovsky wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to bring HSFFIG in order and make it work with GHC 6.6 and
> the modern package structure. I have found out that the
> Distribution.Compat.FilePath module (which used to be System.FilePath
> in its former life) is hidden:
>
> programs/ffipkg.hs:11:7:
>    Could not find module `Distribution.Compat.FilePath':
>      it is hidden (in package Cabal-1.1.6.2)
>
> I cannot use the new FilePath package because it does not have
> function like exeExtension.
>
> Other functions (splitFileExt, parseSearchPath, joinFileName, join
> FileExt) probably have their analogs in the new package. What else can
> I use for exeExtension?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- 
> Dimitry Golubovsky
>
> Anywhere on the Web
> _______________________________________________
> Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list
> Glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users