Why export getDir?

[angerman]

getDir :: FilePath -> IO [(FilePath, ByteString)]

seems like a rather strange export, considering everything else that is exported is in the Q monad, and getDir is listed under Embed at compile time.

[snoyberg]

I think the answer is simply "some people find it useful." Perhaps you can PR for clearer docs on what it does?

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[angerman]

The question arose out of the following patch: mobilehaskell@679b369

When making the quasi class more declarative, with separate functions for file and process io,
getDirs signature would change from

FilePath -> IO [(FilePath, ByteString)]

to

FilePath -> Q [(FilePath, ByteString)]

With getDir being exported, this then become a public api change.

The removal of getDir was pondered in #20 as well.