[Haskell-cafe] Abstracting configuration directories

Tim C. Schroeder tim at blitzcode.net
Thu Dec 19 06:40:02 UTC 2013


I think this is what you're looking for:

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/directory-1.2.0.1/docs/System-Directory.html#g:2

Cheers,
Tim

On Dec 19, 2013, at 4:46 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:

> I'm writing a small utility whose only non-portable code involves the
> two paths,
> 
>  /etc/htsnrc
>  $HOME/.htsnrc
> 
> These have sort-of analogues under Windows; in .NET they are available
> through something like,
> 
>  Environment.SpecialFolder.CommonApplicationData
>  Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData
> 
> I personally will only ever need to run on Linux, but as a matter of
> principle I'd like to abstract the paths. Is there a library that can do
> this already?
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