System.FilePath propsal (Was: Cabal feedback notes)

[Philippa Cowderoy]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Krasimir Angelov wrote:

> It is not hard to split System.FilePath to
> System.FilePath.Posix and System.FilePath.Windows. I
> will do that if other people also agree on that.
>

That makes life... irritating for those of us trying to write genuinely
portable code, insofar as there's no System.FilePath.DoTheNativeThing.
It'd be nice to be able to do things like get a list of the files, just
the files[1], in a given directory without having to use a preprocessor or
similar for portability.

[1] As opposed to directory entries like ".."

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