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

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 08:15:42AM +0100, Jon Bright wrote:
> >http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200108/msg00183.html
> >seems to argue that USERPROFILE is the one we want, but, eh, the whole
> >system doesn't make much sense...
> 
> I think we're basically looking at 18 years of backwards-compatibility 
> cruft from the outside.

Yup.

> >I've just implemented:
> >  1) if MONOTONE_HOME is defined, use it
> >  2) if HOME is defined, use it
> >  3) if USERPROFILE is defined, use it
> >  4) if HOMEDRIVE+HOMEPATH are defined, use them
> >  5) whine at user
> >
> >Is that good enough to make people happy?
> 
> Not quite.  I'm of the opinion that 2) should be:
> 
> 2) if (HOME is defined) and (OSTYPE is defined and =="msys" || 
> =="cygwin"), use $HOME
> 
> If you're in a normal Windows shell, HOME has (afaict) no special 
> meaning - but it's a common enough name that it might be defined for 
> other reasons.  For both Cygwin and MinGW, HOME has the normal-to-Unix 
> special meaning.  My argument would be, if you're a plain Windows user 
> who doesn't know nothing about this fancy Unix stuff, you want 
> USERPROFILE treated as your home.  If you're one of those smart, 
> sophisticated Cygwin/MinGW users, you want your Cygwin/MinGW home dir used.

Oh, fine ;-).  5b1670cba6566a6ce72433872f904d9fe4076d74.

-- Nathaniel

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