Re: [Monotone-devel] bug report ver 0.16, on windows

[Jon Bright]

Hi,

Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> The current logic on Windows is:
>  -- if HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH are defined, your homedir is $HOMEDRIVE+$HOMEPATH
>  -- otherwise, error out and whine at the user

For my bog-standard Cygwin install, HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH are 
defined... but to ...Documents and Settings....  HOME is also defined 
within the Cygwin shell, to /home/jbright.  Under the normal Windows 
command shell, only HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH are defined, HOME is absent. 
 USERPROFILE is defined in both Cygwin and the Windows command shell, 
but points at ...Documents and Settings... in both places.

I'd suggest:

1. If OSTYPE is defined and $OSTYPE=="cygwin", and HOME is defined, use 
$HOME.
1a. Maybe take USERPROFILE instead of HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH.  I'm 
guessing USERPROFILE is probably an NTism, but I don't know for sure.
2. If HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH are defined, do as currently
3. Otherwise, whine at user.

Note, though, that I've not got a MinGW install on this machine to check 
against, so an additional rule might be needed for that.  Fun! :-)

--
Jon Bright
Silicon Circus Ltd.
http://www.siliconcircus.com