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This is a Go library for detecting the user's home directory without the use of
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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
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for a user, and homedir.Expand() to expand the ~ in a path to the home
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directory.
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Why not just use os/user? The built-in os/user package requires cgo on Darwin
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systems. This means that any Go code that uses that package cannot cross
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compile. But 99% of the time the use for os/user is just to retrieve the home
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directory, which we can do for the current user without cgo. This library does
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that, enabling cross-compilation.
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