realpath in addition to clean about just

[casey]

I'm supposed to put a note in the readme when something is available on master but not a release, but I always forget 😅 Just released 1.24.0 which includes canonicalize!

[casey]

Just added a canonicalize function, which calls std::fs::canonicalize.

[casey]

clean() does lexical path cleaning, so it only looks at the path it gets passed, not the filesystem to resolve symlinks. Would adding a canonicalize() function help? canonicalize() would be like clean(), except it would look at and resolve symlinks to produce a canonical path. canonicalize() would be easy enough to add, since rust provides std::fs::canonicalize, and the function could just call that.

[JonathanDoughty]

Yes, that looks like it would provide the desired symlink resolution, with Windows support for those that need it. Thanks!

[jneuendorf-i4h]

Just added a canonicalize function, which calls std::fs::canonicalize.

I just fell for it, because it's already merged in master and thus part of the online documentation, but has not yet been released. 😅 I guess, it will be contained in 1.24.0+. Can you say, when it will be released?