pathtype-0.7.0.1: CHANGELOG

0.7
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* Move absRel and fileDir out of their classes.
  A problem would arise if someone writes
    import System.Path (AbsRelClass(absRel))
  He would have to replace it by
    import System.Path (AbsRelClass, absRel)

* Monoid instance for Path.RelDir
  Requires helper classes IsRel, IsDir.
  IsAbs and IsFile added for completeness.

* Declare infix precedences of </>, <.> and <++> such that we can write:
    dir0 </> dir1 </> dir2 </> base <++> "-foo" <++> "-bar" <.> "tar" <.> "gz"
  This is similar to the fixities in the 'filepath' package,
  but differs slightly
  since in our package paths and extensions have different types.

* Import packages 'transformers' and 'utility-ht'
  that allow for some simplifications.

* Deprecate asPath,
    asRelFile, asRelDir, asAbsFile, asAbsDir,
    asRelPath, asAbsPath, asFilePath, asDirPath

* Recommended are now the checking constructors 'path', maybePath, parsePath,
    relFile, relDir, absFile, absDir,
    relPath, absPath, filePath, dirPath

* replace IsString instance for OverloadedStrings
  by an instance that cannot be implemented.

* getDirectoryContents is no longer synonym to relDirectoryContents.
  Instead it returns the list of all directory objects as RelFileOrDir.
  This is closer to the getDirectoryContents function
  from the 'directory' package.

* clarify meaning of AbsRel and FileDir tags of a path

* clarify meaning of drive-relative paths on Windows

* clarify handling of file system links

0.6
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* joinPath: restrict to RelPath and atomic path components

* Add type class constraints and restrict types
  in order to make the functions work with the new datatype.
  E.g. we need to fix the type to FilePath
  wherever a function requires a non-empty path.

* Add support for MS Windows paths with leading drive labels

0.5.5
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* AbsRelClass, FileDirClass: turn into closed-world classes.
  Strict accordance to PVP would require to bump version to 0.6,
  but since the user cannot write instances of this class,
  we can hardly break code.

* instance {Show, Read} Path now emit and parse valid Haskell expressions

* IO.withFile restricted to FilePath
  This changes API but it should only break buggy code.

0.5.4.3
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* Make test suite static part of the source code,
  but maintain a program to update the test suite to changed tests.

0.5.4.1
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* Merge git back to darcs, continue on hub.darcs.net

0.5.4
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* Migrated from darcs to git (on GitHub)

0.5.3
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* Upgrades + changes for GHC 7.6.1 - by Ben Millwood

0.5.0
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* Added System.Path.Windows and System.Path.Posix modules. These are modelled on the System.FilePath approach to supporting the two styles of path.

0.0.2
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* Split System.Path.Directory into its own module
* Implemented covers for all the remaining System.Directory functions
* Renamed 'hasExtension' to 'hasAnExtension', and added new 'hasExtension' fn which checks for a given extension
* Renamed the '...FileOrDir...' functions to be 'generic...' (thanks to Neil Mitchell for the suggestion!)
* Added support for OverloadedStrings
* Renamed the 'mk...' unchecked construction functions to 'as...' to better reflect what they do
* Added: makeAbsolute, makeAbsoluteFromCwd, genericMakeAbsolute, genericMakeAbsoluteFromCwd
* Added: mkAbsPath, mkAbsPathFromCwd
* Added System.Path.IO to cover System.IO
* Made the internal 'Path' type strict
* Removed 'splitDirectories' as it serves no purpose not covered by 'splitPath'
* Changed behaviour of 'getDirectoryContents' to return relative paths
* Fixed the type of 'setCurrentDirectory'

0.0.1
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Initial Release