commit | b8bc1bf767474819792c23f32d8286a45736f1c6 | [log] [tgz] |
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author | Mitchell Hashimoto <mitchell.hashimoto@gmail.com> | Sat Dec 03 11:45:07 2016 -0800 |
committer | Mitchell Hashimoto <mitchell.hashimoto@gmail.com> | Sat Dec 03 11:45:07 2016 -0800 |
tree | df2188ba0aefe1aa02744f21a637987b9e8218bb | |
parent | 756f7b183b7ab78acdbbee5c7f392838ed459dda [diff] |
Fix broken logic merged from #9
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.