Changelog for the directory package

1.3.0.0 (December 2016)

• Drop trailing slashes in canonicalizePath (#63)

• Rename isSymbolicLink to pathIsSymbolicLink. The old name will remain available but may be removed in the next major release. (#52)

• Changed canonicalizePath to dereference symbolic links even if it points to a file and is not the last path segment

• On Windows, canonicalizePath now canonicalizes the letter case too

• On Windows, canonicalizePath now also dereferences symbolic links

• When exceptions are thrown, the error location will now contain additional information about the internal function(s) used.

1.2.7.1 (November 2016)

• Don’t abort removePathForcibly if files or directories go missing. In addition, keep going even if an exception occurs. (#60)

1.2.7.0 (August 2016)

• Remove deprecated C bits. This means HsDirectory.h and its functions are no longer available. (#50)

• Add doesPathExist and getFileSize (#57)

• Add renamePath (#58)

• Add removePathForcibly (#59)

1.2.6.3 (May 2016)

• Add missing import of (<*>) on Windows for base earlier than 4.8.0.0 (#53)

1.2.6.2 (April 2016)

• Bundled with GHC 8.0.1

• Fix typo in file time functions when utimensat is not available and version of unix package is lower than 2.7.0.0

1.2.6.1 (April 2016)

• Fix mistake in file time functions when utimensat is not available (#47)

1.2.6.0 (April 2016)

• Make findExecutable, findExecutables, findExecutablesInDirectories, findFile, and findFilesWith lazier (#43)

• Add findFileWith

• Add copyFileWithMetadata, which copies additional metadata (#40)

• Improve error message of removeDirectoryRecursive when used on a directory symbolic link on Windows.

• Add isSymbolicLink

• Drop support for Hugs.

1.2.5.1 (February 2016)

• Improve error message of getCurrentDirectory when the current working directory no longer exists (#39)

• Fix the behavior of trailing path separators in canonicalizePath as well as makeAbsolute when applied to the current directory; they should now match the behavior of canonicalizePath prior to 1.2.3.0 (when the bug was introduced) (#42)

• Set the location in IO errors from makeAbsolute.

1.2.5.0 (December 2015)

• Add listDirectory, which is similar to getDirectoryContents but omits . and .. (#36)

• Remove support for --with-cc= in configure; use the CC= flag instead (ghc:D1608)

1.2.4.0 (September 2015)

• Work around lack of #const_str when cross-compiling (haskell-cafe)

• Add findExecutablesInDirectories (#33)

• Add exeExtension

1.2.3.1 (August 2015)

• Restore support for Safe Haskell with base < 4.8 (#30)

1.2.3.0 (July 2015)

• Add support for XDG Base Directory Specification (#6)

• Implement setModificationTime counterpart to getModificationTime (#13)

• Implement getAccessTime and setAccessTime

• Set the filename in IO errors from the file time functions

• Fix canonicalizePath so that it always returns a reasonable result even if the path is inaccessible and will not throw exceptions unless the current directory cannot be obtained (#23)

• Corrected the trailing slash behavior of makeAbsolute so that makeAbsolute "" == makeAbsolute "."

• Deprecate use of HsDirectory.h and HsDirectoryConfig.h

• Implement withCurrentDirectory

1.2.2.1 (Apr 2015)

• Fix dependency problem on NixOS when building with tests (#24)

1.2.2.0 (Mar 2015)

• Bundled with GHC 7.10.1

• Make getModificationTime support sub-second resolution on Windows

• Fix silent failure in createDirectoryIfMissing

• Replace throw by better defined throwIOs

• Avoid stack overflow in getDirectoryContents (#17)

• Expose findExecutables (#14)

• removeDirectoryRecursive no longer follows symlinks under any circumstances (#15)

• Allow trailing path separators in getPermissions on Windows (#9)

• renameFile now always throws the correct error type (InappropriateType) when the destination is a directory, as long as the filesystem is not being modified concurrently (#8)

• Add makeAbsolute, which should be preferred over canonicalizePath unless one requires symbolic links to be resolved

1.2.1.0 (Mar 2014)

• Bundled with GHC 7.8.1

• Add support for sub-second precision in getModificationTime when linked against unix>=2.6.0.0

• Fix createDirectoryIfMissing _ "." in C:\ on Windows

• Remove support for NHC98 compiler

• Update package to cabal-version >= 1.10 format

• Enhance Haddock documentation for doesDirectoryExist and canonicalizePath

• Fix findExecutable to check that file permissions indicate executable

• New convenience functions findFiles and findFilesWith