[Ocaml-lib-devel] Proposal : Path

[Nicolas C. <war...@fr...>]

Hi list,
I came up very recently with a typical problem.
I had a file A and its relative path, I had a file B and its absolute path,
I wanted to get the file B path relative to A.... not so easy actually. I
wrote this small module Path :

Path.make "my/../path/./" build a relative path
Path.absolute give the absolute path
Path.relative a b give the path of a relative to b
Path.up goes up one directory

I did some tests under windows , it looks like it works well. If people can
test it under *nix...

Note : this does not actually do any system checking ( the path may not
exists or contains invalid characters ). Only special paths . .. and / ( and
windows drive letters ) are recognized as special.

Nicolas Cannasse