hpath/hpath-filepath/README.md

# HPath-filepath

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Support for bytestring based filepath manipulation, similar to 'filepath'.

This package is part of the HPath suite, also check out [hpath](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hpath) and [hpath-io](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hpath-io).

## Motivation

This is basically a fork of [posix-paths](https://github.com/JohnLato/posix-paths), which seemed to have stalled development.

There is also a similar library [filepath-bytestring](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/filepath-bytestring), but it doesn't follow an open development model and is cross-platform, which this library is not interested in.

## Differences to 'posix-paths'

* uses the `word8` package for save word8 literals instead of `OverloadedStrings`
* `hasTrailingPathSeparator` and `dropTrailingPathSeparator` behave in the same way as their `System.FilePath` counterpart
* has some additional functions

## Differences to 'filepath-bytestring'

* uses the `word8` package for save word8 literals instead of `OverloadedStrings`
* is not cross-platform (less odd code to maintain)
* has some additional functions