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bug#40977: --load-path does not honor ~
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Leo Famulari |
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bug#40977: --load-path does not honor ~ |
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Thu, 30 Apr 2020 13:53:05 -0400 |
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 07:34:39PM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> UNIX has its warts, and this is a well-known one (use ${HOME} instead).
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> If we did expanduser, I'm sure we'd be seeing bug reports about paths where
> there was a tilde in the actual file name, NOT as a expanduser mark.
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> UNIX tools do what they do, and this wart is here to stay in a lot of tools.
> Then at least make it consistent across all the tools UNIX has.
If it's true that this behaviour is more or less consistent in UNIX /
POSIX, then I agree with Danny that we should leave it as is. And, I
have noticed that ${HOME} is the way to go.