| # go-homedir |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| **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. |
