Fork chrisdone's path library
I wasn't happy with the way it dealt with Dir vs File things. In his
version of the library, a `Path b Dir` always ends with a trailing
path separator and `Path b File` never ends with a trailing path separator.
IMO, it is nonsensical to make a Dir vs File distinction on path level,
although it first seems nice.
Some of the reasons are:
* a path is just that: a path. It is completely disconnected from IO level
and even if a `Dir`/`File` type theoretically allows us to say "this path
ought to point to a file", there is literally zero guarantee that it will
hold true at runtime. So this basically gives a false feeling of a
type-safe file distinction.
* it's imprecise about Dir vs File distinction, which makes it even worse,
because a directory is also a file (just not a regular file). Add symlinks
to that and the confusion is complete.
* it makes the API oddly complicated for use cases where we basically don't
care (yet) whether something turns out to be a directory or not
Still, it comes also with a few perks:
* it simplifies some functions, because they now have guarantees whether a
path ends in a trailing path separator or not
* it may be safer for interaction with other library functions, which behave
differently depending on a trailing path separator (like probably shelly)
Not limited to, but also in order to fix my remarks without breaking any
benefits, I did:
* rename the `Dir`/`File` types to `TPS`/`NoTPS`, so it's clear we are only
giving information about trailing path separators and not actual file
types we don't know about yet
* add a `MaybeTPS` type, which does not mess with trailing path separators
and also gives no guarantees about them... then added `toNoTPS` and
`toTPS` to allow type-safe conversion
* make some functions accept more general types, so we don't unnecessarily
force paths with trailing separators for `(</>)` for example... instead
these functions now examine the paths to still have correct behavior.
This is really minor overhead. You might say now "but then I can append
filepath to filepath". Well, as I said... we don't know whether it's a
"filepath" at all.
* merge `filename` and `dirname` into `basename` and make `parent` be
`dirname`, so the function names match the name of the POSIX ones,
which do (almost) the same...
* fix a bug in `basename` (formerly `dirname`) which broke the type
guarantees
* add a pattern synonym for easier pattern matching without exporting
the internal Path constructor
2016-03-08 21:53:42 +00:00
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# HPath
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2015-05-08 12:35:05 +00:00
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2016-05-09 11:31:20 +00:00
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Support for well-typed paths in Haskell. Also provides ByteString based filepath
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manipulation.
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2016-01-28 11:47:46 +00:00
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## Motivation
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Fork chrisdone's path library
I wasn't happy with the way it dealt with Dir vs File things. In his
version of the library, a `Path b Dir` always ends with a trailing
path separator and `Path b File` never ends with a trailing path separator.
IMO, it is nonsensical to make a Dir vs File distinction on path level,
although it first seems nice.
Some of the reasons are:
* a path is just that: a path. It is completely disconnected from IO level
and even if a `Dir`/`File` type theoretically allows us to say "this path
ought to point to a file", there is literally zero guarantee that it will
hold true at runtime. So this basically gives a false feeling of a
type-safe file distinction.
* it's imprecise about Dir vs File distinction, which makes it even worse,
because a directory is also a file (just not a regular file). Add symlinks
to that and the confusion is complete.
* it makes the API oddly complicated for use cases where we basically don't
care (yet) whether something turns out to be a directory or not
Still, it comes also with a few perks:
* it simplifies some functions, because they now have guarantees whether a
path ends in a trailing path separator or not
* it may be safer for interaction with other library functions, which behave
differently depending on a trailing path separator (like probably shelly)
Not limited to, but also in order to fix my remarks without breaking any
benefits, I did:
* rename the `Dir`/`File` types to `TPS`/`NoTPS`, so it's clear we are only
giving information about trailing path separators and not actual file
types we don't know about yet
* add a `MaybeTPS` type, which does not mess with trailing path separators
and also gives no guarantees about them... then added `toNoTPS` and
`toTPS` to allow type-safe conversion
* make some functions accept more general types, so we don't unnecessarily
force paths with trailing separators for `(</>)` for example... instead
these functions now examine the paths to still have correct behavior.
This is really minor overhead. You might say now "but then I can append
filepath to filepath". Well, as I said... we don't know whether it's a
"filepath" at all.
* merge `filename` and `dirname` into `basename` and make `parent` be
`dirname`, so the function names match the name of the POSIX ones,
which do (almost) the same...
* fix a bug in `basename` (formerly `dirname`) which broke the type
guarantees
* add a pattern synonym for easier pattern matching without exporting
the internal Path constructor
2016-03-08 21:53:42 +00:00
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The motivation came during development of
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[hsfm](https://github.com/hasufell/hsfm)
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which has a pretty strict File type, but lacks a strict Path type, e.g.
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for user input.
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The library that came closest to my needs was
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[path](https://github.com/chrisdone/path),
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but the API turned out to be oddly complicated for my use case, so I
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decided to fork it.
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2016-05-09 11:31:20 +00:00
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Similarly, [posix-paths](https://github.com/JohnLato/posix-paths)
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was exactly what I wanted for the low-level operations, but upstream seems dead,
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so it is forked as well and merged into this library.
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2016-05-09 15:37:33 +00:00
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## Goals
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* well-typed paths
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* high-level API to file operations like recursive directory copy
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* safe filepath manipulation, never using String as filepath, but ByteString
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* still allowing sufficient control to interact with the underlying low-level calls
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Fork chrisdone's path library
I wasn't happy with the way it dealt with Dir vs File things. In his
version of the library, a `Path b Dir` always ends with a trailing
path separator and `Path b File` never ends with a trailing path separator.
IMO, it is nonsensical to make a Dir vs File distinction on path level,
although it first seems nice.
Some of the reasons are:
* a path is just that: a path. It is completely disconnected from IO level
and even if a `Dir`/`File` type theoretically allows us to say "this path
ought to point to a file", there is literally zero guarantee that it will
hold true at runtime. So this basically gives a false feeling of a
type-safe file distinction.
* it's imprecise about Dir vs File distinction, which makes it even worse,
because a directory is also a file (just not a regular file). Add symlinks
to that and the confusion is complete.
* it makes the API oddly complicated for use cases where we basically don't
care (yet) whether something turns out to be a directory or not
Still, it comes also with a few perks:
* it simplifies some functions, because they now have guarantees whether a
path ends in a trailing path separator or not
* it may be safer for interaction with other library functions, which behave
differently depending on a trailing path separator (like probably shelly)
Not limited to, but also in order to fix my remarks without breaking any
benefits, I did:
* rename the `Dir`/`File` types to `TPS`/`NoTPS`, so it's clear we are only
giving information about trailing path separators and not actual file
types we don't know about yet
* add a `MaybeTPS` type, which does not mess with trailing path separators
and also gives no guarantees about them... then added `toNoTPS` and
`toTPS` to allow type-safe conversion
* make some functions accept more general types, so we don't unnecessarily
force paths with trailing separators for `(</>)` for example... instead
these functions now examine the paths to still have correct behavior.
This is really minor overhead. You might say now "but then I can append
filepath to filepath". Well, as I said... we don't know whether it's a
"filepath" at all.
* merge `filename` and `dirname` into `basename` and make `parent` be
`dirname`, so the function names match the name of the POSIX ones,
which do (almost) the same...
* fix a bug in `basename` (formerly `dirname`) which broke the type
guarantees
* add a pattern synonym for easier pattern matching without exporting
the internal Path constructor
2016-03-08 21:53:42 +00:00
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## Differences to 'path'
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2016-05-09 11:31:20 +00:00
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* doesn't attempt to fake IO-related information into the path, so whether a path points to a file or directory is up to your IO-code to decide...
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2016-04-16 16:17:44 +00:00
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* trailing path separators will be preserved if they exist, no messing with that
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* uses safe ByteString for filepaths under the hood instead of unsafe String
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* fixes broken [dirname](https://github.com/chrisdone/path/issues/18)
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* renames dirname/filename to basename/dirname to match the POSIX shell functions
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* introduces a new `Path Fn` for safe filename guarantees and a `RelC` class
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* allows pattern matching via unidirectional PatternSynonym
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* uses simple doctest for testing
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* allows `~/` as relative path, because on posix level `~` is just a regular filename that does _NOT_ point to `$HOME`
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* remove TH, it sucks
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2016-01-28 11:47:46 +00:00
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2016-05-09 11:31:20 +00:00
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## Differences to 'posix-paths'
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* `hasTrailingPathSeparator` behaves in the same way as `System.FilePath`
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* `dropTrailingPathSeparator` behaves in the same way as `System.FilePath`
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2016-05-09 11:37:21 +00:00
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* added various functions like `isValid`, `normalise` and `equalFilePath`
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* uses the `word8` package for save word8 literals instead of `OverloadedStrings`
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* has custom versions of `openFd` and `getDirectoryContents`
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