Re: gnustep-base create $HOME/GNUstep/Library

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 14 Nov 2011, at 08:16, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> 
> On 13 Nov 2011, at 21:58, Julián Moreno Patiño wrote:
> 
>> Hi Dear GNUstep Developers,
>> 
>> I co-maintain open source unar package in GNU Debian (decompress rar files), 
>> it uses NSDate class. We want to avoid the creation of  
>> $HOME/GNUstep/Library (it's created automatically by gnustep-base), because 
>> is not used by unar, are there a function, parameter or atribute to avoid 
>> this ?.
> 
> Could you please identify where/how/why it does that?  My understanding is 
> that the directory should not be created *unless* there is a need to store 
> something into it, so either there is a bug (which I can fix if I know where 
> it is) or something is being written to the directory (I might be able to 
> advise how to avoid that) ... but I need more information.

Actually, no need to bother.  I found FIXME already in the code for this issue, 
and have updated SVN trunk (so it should get into the next bugfix release) to 
correct this.