[Haskell-cafe] Abstracted File Library?

[Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 )]

Hello,

> Clarify this, please. Used by who?

It is by System.FilePath.
 Windows: combine "home" "bob" == "home\\bob"

> Both Cabal and filepath libraries do have functions operating on
> filepath strings. Eg filepath can split them.

I'm want to use regular expressions for results of 'combine', for
instance.

>> Are there any abstracted file library to solve these problems?
>> Or should I start to write such a library?
> 
> Which functions should this library have?

isSymbolicLink, linkCounts, etc.

> I'm pretty sure that filepath already has most functions you need.

Not really at least to me.

--Kazu