On Sep 22, 2009, at 12:25 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
Jim Jagielski wrote:
While looking at a different codebase, I was made (re)aware that the
ordering for APR to find the temp directory uses the following
ordering
in env-vars:
$TMP
$TEMP
$TMPDIR
with the rationale that "this is how Python 2.2 does it"
But really, the canonical var to use is $TMPDIR, and looking
over Python 2.6 (at least) does revise the ordering to be what
"should" be expected....
for envname in 'TMPDIR', 'TEMP', 'TMP':
dirname = _os.getenv(envname)
if dirname: dirlist.append(dirname)
Anyone have heartburn if I "fix" tempdir.c ?
In 1.3, hmmm... Sounds like a big leap around expectations. For
future
release minor or major only, it sounds like a good fix.
I'm looking over the docs to see if we actually document this
anyplace... Although Python 2.2 may have used that order, 1.5
didn't nor does 2.6... But agree that the change requires
documenting.
