commit | ae18d6b8b3205b561c79e8e5f69bff09736185f4 | [log] [tgz] |
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author | Mitchell Hashimoto <mitchell.hashimoto@gmail.com> | Thu Aug 23 17:42:36 2018 -0700 |
committer | Mitchell Hashimoto <mitchell.hashimoto@gmail.com> | Thu Aug 23 17:42:36 2018 -0700 |
tree | 30d387326d636916c152fe871e4305ee84f74b61 | |
parent | 58046073cbffe2f25d425fe1331102f55cf719de [diff] |
Add go.mod and release v1
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.