System.FilePath propsal (Was: Cabal feedback notes)

[Aaron Denney]

On 2004-10-29, Krasimir Angelov <ka2_mail at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Good point. In order to do proper normalization we
> need IO monad. The absolutizePath function is already
> in IO. I propose to remove normalizePath function and
> to keep only absolutizePath function (in
> System.Directory). On Windows it can be implemented on
> top of GetFullPathName and on Unix there is realpath
> function.

They're both useful functions, and I think both should be kept,
and the differences documented.  (See also zsh's "chase_dots"
and "chase_links" options.)

-- 
Aaron Denney
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