commit | 32e698a4392aafcc2e7825ac56e9af3f851b65db | [log] [tgz] |
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author | Mike Brancato <mike@mikebrancato.com> | Sat Jun 23 05:11:06 2018 |
committer | Mike Brancato <mike@mikebrancato.com> | Sat Jun 23 05:11:06 2018 |
tree | 8ac518ff3118907185eab85ce404e8aa9ca9d778 | |
parent | 3864e76763d94a6df2f9960b16a20a33da9f9a66 [diff] |
Shift up the preference of the USERPROFILE variable
This is a Go library for detecting the user's home directory without the use of cgo, so the library can be used in cross-compilation environments.
Usage is incredibly simple, just call homedir.Dir()
to get the home directory for a user, and homedir.Expand()
to expand the ~
in a path to the home directory.
Why not just use os/user
? The built-in os/user
package requires cgo on Darwin systems. This means that any Go code that uses that package cannot cross compile. But 99% of the time the use for os/user
is just to retrieve the home directory, which we can do for the current user without cgo. This library does that, enabling cross-compilation.