Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] add pathname-expand

[Felix]

Hi, Mario!

> I noticed your patch uses `user-information', that can be called
> depending on the input format, but it doesn't check if it's running on a
> windows system.  Isn't it going to "break" on windows?  

Yes.

> I don't have a
> windows box at hand right now, so I cannot test it, but it seems that
> posixwin uses define-unimplemented to define user-information, which
> will just make it raise an error.
> 

That's correct.

> Sorry for bringing this topic again, but with regard to
> pathname-expand's behavior: you already said you are not for raising an
> error in case no home can be determined.  OTOH, in the
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2013-07/msg00009.html
> thread at least Peter, Alan, Evan and Alaric think raising an exception
> is the right thing to do (I think so).
> 
> Since people seem to disagree on that point, I think I should ask again
> as an attempt to reach a consensus or to at least justify our decision,
> even if it doesn't make everybody happy: should we go ahead and assume
> "."  when no home can be determined instead of raising an exception?

Well, that's how I handled it. If raising an exception is considered
the better option, then, fine.


felix