Ralph wrote: > The behaviour cannot solidify further. :-) It's clear, determinate, > predictable, and simple to document.
Those qualities can be true for the 1.7 behaviour. > I thought RCn+1 was meant to be minimal differences from RCn? If there's an RC3, the only code difference would be for this issue. > That's why Andy Bradford's POP3 patch is post 1.8. There's a key difference between the $HOME change and Andy's POP3 patch: the behaviour has already, prior to 1.8 final release, changed from 1.7 for the former but not the latter. > Switching the behaviour of > a set-but-empty HOME now seems significant given some value for HOME > must be chosen. 1.8 hasn't been released yet. I think that we owe users consistent behaviour from 1.7 to 1.8 unless clearly documented. > And will mean another round of testing by others on top of your time. I appreciate your consideration of that but I think that we need to resolve the consistency issue. In any case, a new test and man page update are called for. And my feeling at this point is to put out an RC3 with the 1.7 behavior for $HOME. David
