Adding System.FilePath

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi

> or to do it the Makefile way and
> also put it into 6.6.1 (which obviously has the advantage that it's
> available RSN by default with GHC; I don't think there's an interface
> issue here as it's a separate package, but I'd like to get Simon's input
> first!).

That would be handy.

> If it's a sticking point then I'm sure I can work out how to get hugs to
> include it too, assuming Ross doesn't object.

It should make it into the Windows distribution of Hugs ;)


> One thing: It would make things a lot simpler if filepath was moved to
> (or kept in sync with) http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/filepath/

Can be done easily enough, if we decide to go this route, I'll move it
over and delete the original (I hate having out of sync libraries, and
I hate thinking that libraries might be out of sync, even if they are
automatically synced). The library as it stands is not suitable for
including into GHC, the patch I made is however. The library should be
structured differently, using cpp instead of os.info (as the patch
does). Also the library has reverse compatibility gunk, i.e.
System.FilePath.Version_0_10, which wants removing before it becomes
stable.

If this is the way you want to go, I'll redo the library and move it
to darcs.haskell.org.

Thanks

Neil