I wrote: >> Removing support for %HOME% has suddenly broken many >> programs. If people don't like it, we can consider >> deprecating it in some future version of GHC, but for now >> it should put back.
Simon Marlow wrote: > Only GHCi has changed here. Perhaps you're under the impression that we > recently changed the behaviour of getHomeDirectory? In fact, it was > introduced in GHC 6.4 and has always had the same behaviour, calling > SHGetFolderPath on Windows. Thanks, Simon. Yes, I was originally under that mistaken impression, but Duncan set me straight. I am glad that %HOMEPATH% is not being used, though ShGetFolderPath sometimes gives the wrong answer on Vista. So having a customizable notion of home directory on Windows would be a new feature for getHomeDirectory. For GHCi it would be rescuing a recently removed one. -Yitz _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users