easy-file: Cross-platform File handling

Cross-platform File handling for Unix/Mac/Windows

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Versions [RSS]	0.1.0, 0.1.1, 0.2.0, 0.2.1, 0.2.2, 0.2.3, 0.2.4, 0.2.5, 0.2.6
Change log	ChangeLog.md
Dependencies	base (>=4.16 && <5), directory, filepath, time, unix, Win32 [details]
Tested with	ghc ==9.14.1, ghc ==9.12.4, ghc ==9.10.3, ghc ==9.8.4, ghc ==9.6.7, ghc ==9.4.8, ghc ==9.2.8
License	BSD-3-Clause
Author	Kazu Yamamoto <kazu@iij.ad.jp>
Maintainer	Kazu Yamamoto <kazu@iij.ad.jp>
Uploaded	by KazuYamamoto at 2026-11-03T06:17:36Z
Category	System
Home page	http://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/easy-file
Source repo	head: git clone https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/easy-file.git
Distributions	Arch:0.2.6, Fedora:0.2.5, LTSHaskell:0.2.6, Stackage:0.2.6
Reverse Dependencies	7 direct, 4435 indirect [details]
Downloads	77609 total (127 in the last 30 days)
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Status	Docs available [build log] Last success reported on 2026-11-03 [all 1 reports]

This is a Haskell package of cross-platform file handling for Unix/Mac/Windows.

The current Haskell modules have following shortcomings:

getModificationTime exists in System.Directory. But getAccessTime, getStatusChangeTime, getCreationTime do not exist.
getModificationTime returns obsoleted type, ClockTime. It should return modern type, UTCTime, I believe.
Some file functions are missing. A function to tell the link counter, for instance.
Path separator is not unified. Even though Windows accepts '/' as a file separator, getCurrentDirectory in System.Directory returns '\' as a file separator. So, we need to specify regular expression like this: "[/\]foo[/\]bar[/\]baz".
getHomeDirectory returns HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH instead of the HOME environment variable on Windows.

This package aims to resolve these problems.