[darcs-users] darcs patch: Make FileName.drop_dotdot work with abso... (and 2 more)

[Trent W. Buck]

David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net> writes:

> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:06:23AM -0700, Dmitry Kurochkin wrote:
>> Is there any reason not to use System.Directory.canonicalizePath in
>> ioAbsolute? It seems to do just what we need.
>
> The main reason would be that there doesn't seem to be any
> documentation indicating what System.Directory.canonicalizePath does.
> It could be there's some in the source, but the haddock docs aren't
> adequate.  If it doesn't do exactly what we want, we'll have to
> reimplement it anyhow.

The GHC people will doubtless accept patches to fix the docs ;-)