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# HPath
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Support for well-typed paths in Haskell.
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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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## Motivation
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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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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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## Differences to 'path'
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* doesn't attempt to fake IO-related types into the path, so whether a path points to a file or directory is up to your IO-code to decide... this should be a library that is used _with_ a proper IO File Type
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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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* 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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* 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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## 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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