commit | 756f7b183b7ab78acdbbee5c7f392838ed459dda | [log] [tgz] |
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author | Mitchell Hashimoto <xmitchx@gmail.com> | Tue Jun 21 10:42:43 2016 -0700 |
committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | Tue Jun 21 10:42:43 2016 -0700 |
tree | 3cd0e9f7888f9bc09cbd8594ddfe29a17acd7430 | |
parent | 1111e456ffea841564ac0fa5f69c26ef44dafec9 [diff] | |
parent | 9440e2c5f3f6be7e82bd935f5dbae949063af08d [diff] |
Merge pull request #14 from leighmcculloch/windows-test-fix Use path/filepath over hardcoded path separators.
This is a Go library for detecting the user's home directory without the use of cgo, so the library can be used in cross-compilation environments.
Usage is incredibly simple, just call homedir.Dir()
to get the home directory for a user, and homedir.Expand()
to expand the ~
in a path to the home directory.
Why not just use os/user
? The built-in os/user
package requires cgo on Darwin systems. This means that any Go code that uses that package cannot cross compile. But 99% of the time the use for os/user
is just to retrieve the home directory, which we can do for the current user without cgo. This library does that, enabling cross-compilation.