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This is a Go library for detecting the user's home directory withoutthe use of cgo, so the library can be used in cross-compilation environments.

Usage is incredibly simple, just callhomedir.Dir() to get the home directoryfor a user, andhomedir.Expand() to expand the~ in a path to the homedirectory.

Why not just useos/user? The built-inos/user package requirescgo on Darwin systems. This means that any Go code that uses that packagecannot cross compile. But 99% of the time the use foros/user is just toretrieve the home directory, which we can do for the current user withoutcgo. This library does that, enabling cross-compilation.