commit | f82c0a5cae90fc478917baa36f3a19f41f5d98e0 | [log] [tgz] |
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author | Rod Cloutier <rodcloutier@gmail.com> | Mon Jun 06 01:59:22 2016 |
committer | Rod Cloutier <rodcloutier@gmail.com> | Mon Jun 06 01:59:22 2016 |
tree | 54034d094406d7752a5423dad98725f2f709b153 | |
parent | 981ab348d865cf048eb7d17e78ac7192632d8415 [diff] |
Acknowledge and prefer HOME environment variable on Windows
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.