On Dec 14, 2007 11:46 PM, Duncan Coutts
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.
There are not many (there is any, other than perhaps Cygwin?) which set %HOME on Windows. There are many (unix ports) who can *use* HOME if you defined it.
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.
You suspect wrong. I wouldn't install Cygwin in my computer under any circumstance (I did, in the past, and came to hate it quite quickly). If I need GNU tools I install MSYS/MinGW, or GnuWin32. What I would really like is exactly what I've asked for. Juanma