Proposal: Add getFullProgName
Simon Hengel
sol at typeful.net
Tue Jun 19 18:30:06 CEST 2012
@Johan: sorry for the duplicate
> * we can't implement this reliably,
If I understand correctly the current System.Environment.getProgName can
make this distinction somehow. But from a quick peek at the code, I
can't really tell how it's done.
> * the distinction into these three groups doesn't necessarily work for all
> compilers, and
If a compiler does not support script/interactive, it could always
return Binary, right?
> * the distinction (I assume) isn't useful in most use cases
At this point I would find it useful to define use cases. When I was
looking for that functionality, I wanted to find files relative to a
script. For binaries I use Cabal's support for data files, but this
only works for `cabal install`ed packages.
> I think people who want to use this heuristic are better served by the
> existing executable-path package. What do you think?
I still think that a well-tested, reliable way to do that would be
awesome. I'm not sure how hard it is to get it right, though.
If we do not support interactive/script, then I think we should at least
use a Maybe instead of `error`.
Cheers,
Simon
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