Makes sense. I used the function in these gnulib modules that currently do not have a dependency on basename (i believe): exclude, fts, glob, link, progname. I noticed for some, like link, they reimplement the basename functionality (although slightly lacking): https://github.com/coreutils/gnulib/blob/master/lib/link.c#L221-L223 . I am not sure if this intentional to avoid the dependency or just the code was so simple it wasn't pulled in quickly. I know we can limit basename inclusion to windows only although not sure it saves a whole lot. I would need some sort of shim for non-windows operating systems to not use basename or ifdefs and not sure if that really is 'simpler' when basename is essentially the functionality needed.
~mitch (they, them) > >
