Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] add pathname-expand

[Felix]

From: Mario Domenech Goulart <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] add pathname-expand
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 17:24:32 +0000

> Hi Felix,
> 
> On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 22:06:43 +0200 (CEST) Felix <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>>> On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 14:27:43 +0200 (CEST) Felix <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> This patch adds "pathname-expand", a procedure I found in Gambit's
>>>> library and which is quite useful. This does "~"-expansion and makes
>>>> relative pathnames absolute either by merging the current-directory or
>>>> a user-provided base directory.
>>> 
>>> Should pathname-expand replace the proposed `ep' procedure (#1001)?
>>
>> Yes, that was the intention.
> 
> One more question: shouldn't it go to files instead of utils?  The other
> pathname- procedures are in files.
> 

files doesn't depend on the posix unit, so I thought to put it into utils, since
that unit is intended to contain higher-level functionality, and uses various
other units.


felix