Proposal for std.path replacement

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-03-03 17:29, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
> As mentioned in the "std.path.getName(): Screwy by design?" thread, I
> started working on a rewrite of std.path a long time ago, but I got
> sidetracked by other things.  The recent discussion got me working on it
> again, and it turned out there wasn't that much left to be done.
>
> So here it is, please comment:
>
>      http://kyllingen.net/code/ltk/doc/path.html
>      https://github.com/kyllingstad/ltk/blob/master/ltk/path.d
>
> Features:
>
> - Most functions work with all string types, i.e. all permutations of
> mutable/const/immutable(char/wchar/dchar)[].  Notable exceptions are
> toAbsolute() and toCanonical, because they rely on std.file.getcwd()
> which returns an immutable(char)[].
>
> - Correct behaviour in corner cases that aren't covered by the current
> std.path.  See the other thread for some examples, or take a look at the
> unittests for a more complete picture.
>
> - Saner naming scheme.  (Still not set in stone, of course.)
>
> -Lars

How about functions for getting common directories like the home and 
temp directory.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg