[iolib-devel] file-path stuff and handling of trailing /

[Attila Lendvai]

Stelian, i still think that it's not the right way to deal with directories...

i repeatedly struggle due to this behavior:
(iolib.pathnames:file-path-directory (iolib.pathnames:file-path
"/tmp/")) => (:ROOT)

i understand how posix behaves, but i think it's unrelated when it
comes to file-paths dropping the leading slashes. some posix C calls
are not the same as a high-level library storing separate path
components internally in an object and providing such high-level
functions as merging...

imho, it should be either that:
 1) we go the posix way, but then don't define high level functions
like file-path-directory

 2) do define a file-path-directory, but make it so that:
(iolib.pathnames:file-path-directory (iolib.pathnames:file-path
"/tmp/")) => (:ROOT "tmp")

although, i'm probably not aware of all the design issues, like e.g.
canonicalization...

-- 
 attila