Re: conflicts between pathname.h and dirname.h

[Ben Pfaff]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> Here is my attempt at a minimally invasive resolution of the
>> differences
>
> This is backwards. You introduce a dependency from a simple module to a
> complicated module. The purpose of 'filename' (ex-'pathname') is to do
> the most simple filename manipulations: analysis and concatenation. Why
> should it depend on a module that defines functions base_name(), dir_name(),
> last_component(), strip_trailing_slashes() ?

It's not clear to me that concatenation is much simpler than
extraction, but now I can use both headers at once, which is what
I wanted.  Thanks Bruno!
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