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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] add pathname-expand
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Felix |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] add pathname-expand |
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Tue, 20 Aug 2013 09:35:49 +0200 (CEST) |
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