sysutils/hs-rawfilepath 1.1.1nb3 NetBSD

The unix package provides RawFilePath which is a type synonym of ByteString. Unlike FilePath (which is String), it has no performance issues because it is ByteString. It has no encoding issues because it is ByteString which is a sequence of bytes instead of characters.

That's all good. With RawFilePath, we can properly separate the "sequence of bytes" and the "sequence of Unicode characters." The control is yours. Properly encode or decode them with UTF-8 or UTF-16 or any codec of your choice.

However,

* The functions in unix are low-level. * The higher-level packages such as process and directory are strictly tied to FilePath.

This library provides the higher-level interface with RawFilePath.