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go-homedir
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 is not
available on certain architectures such as i386 or PNaCl. Additionally
it has a cgo dependency 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.