Juanma Barranquero wrote:
%HOME% is the de-facto standard for Unix-like
shell applications that were ported to Windows and
need a home directory. If someone sets that, it
means they want to use the folder in that way. And
yes, that is the way GHCi has been working until
now, so I think it should still be supported if someone
sets it.
Yes.
Yes, that is a problem. A user who sets %HOME% has
indicated that this should be used. I think that should be
returned by getHomeDirectory.
Exactly!
I can imagine that you might want GHCi to look in $HOME, for backwards
compatibility. But do you really want getHomeDirectory to return $HOME?
That's a very un-Windowsy thing to do, and I don't think we ought to be
baking Un*x behaviour into APIs that are supposed to do whatever is native
on the current platform.
Cheers,
Simon
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