On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 16:09 +0000, Simon Marlow wrote: > Juanma Barranquero wrote: > > On Dec 14, 2007 3:53 PM, Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> But do you really want getHomeDirectory to return $HOME? > > > > Yes! > > > > If I define %HOME, it is *exactly* because I don't want to use > > Windows' idea of a home directory (which could be perhaps more > > accurately defined as "hidden away storage area for > > automatically-saved configuration settings"). > > Ok. Unless there are any objections, this is what we'll do.
It sounds like a bad idea to me. I agree with your initial reaction and principle that we don't want to "be baking Un*x behaviour into APIs that are supposed to do whatever is native on the current platform." I can just imagine the bug report and eventually figuring out that some application the user had installed had set $HOME and this was messing up finding files. If a particular application (like ghci) wants to consult $HOME in preference to getHomeDirectory it can do so. I don't think we need to make all Haskell programs behave in a non-standard way especially since most other programs are not going to. On the other hand, for a cygwin build there's a very reasonable argument for using $HOME since that's what is native for the environment/platform. I suspect what Juanma would really like is a cygwin build. Duncan _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
