avoid vim.fs.normalize on unix for v0.8

Author: pynappo

Diff for: lua/neo-tree/utils/init.lua

@@ -852,6 +852,7 @@ M.resolve_config_option = function(state, config_option, default_value)
   end
 end
 
+local nvim_v09 = vim.fn.has("nvim-0.9") == 1
 ---Normalize a path, to avoid errors when comparing paths.
 ---@param path string The path to be normalize.
 ---@return string string The normalized path.
@@ -864,7 +865,7 @@ M.normalize_path = function(path)
     path = vim.fs.normalize(path, { win = true })
     -- Now use backslashes, as expected by the rest of Neo-Tree's code
     path = path:gsub("/", M.path_separator)
-  else
+  elseif nvim_v09 then
     path = vim.fs.normalize(path)
   end
   return path