| commit | 9440e2c5f3f6be7e82bd935f5dbae949063af08d | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Leigh McCulloch <leigh@mcchouse.com> | Tue Jun 21 00:02:50 2016 -0700 |
| committer | Leigh McCulloch <leigh@mcchouse.com> | Tue Jun 21 00:22:27 2016 -0700 |
| tree | 3cd0e9f7888f9bc09cbd8594ddfe29a17acd7430 | |
| parent | 1111e456ffea841564ac0fa5f69c26ef44dafec9 [diff] |
Use path/filepath over hardcoded path separators. What === Change tests to use `path/filepath` instead of `fmt` and hardcoded `/` path separators. Why === Joining paths with `/` causes the tests to fail when run on windows because it's file path separator is `\`. Using `path/filepath` allows the code to join paths together using the system path separator without the code needing to know what the separator is.
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.