From bae9f6d2fd5eb5bc80929bd393932b23f14d7c93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jake Champlin Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 12:40:07 -0400 Subject: Initial transfer of provider code --- vendor/github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir/README.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) create mode 100644 vendor/github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir/README.md (limited to 'vendor/github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir/README.md') diff --git a/vendor/github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir/README.md b/vendor/github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d70706d --- /dev/null +++ b/vendor/github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +# 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 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. -- cgit v1.2.3