On Dec 13, 2007 6:03 PM, Claus Reinke
perhaps my fault for filing that ticket in absolutes, which led to a fix replacing, rather than augmenting, the old, erroneous behaviour.
It's not a matter of "fault", but sure it would've been wiser to suggest (or implement) the new behavior without forgetting those of us who were used to the current ways :)
so, one would have to implement the overriding approach consistently (including getHomeDirectory), and issue warnings and documentation to make users aware of any such overriding taking place (and should it be optional, to avoid deviating from the platform standard?)..
As I've said, Emacs already does that and there's no trouble at all.
as a short-term deprecation workaround for ghc-6.8.x, that makes some sense, but in the long-term?
Personally, I wouldn't want to use %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%, neither short-term nor long-term, unless forced to do so. Juanma