On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 03:21 +0200, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
The current behavior is not more WIndows native - it is arguably much worse. The %HOMEPATH% variable should definitely not be used.
It is not.
The folder that it points to is not a "home directory" and should not be used that way. But if there is no other way to provide a value for getHomeDirectory, I guess that is still better than throwing a run-time exception, but at least obtain the path in a somewhat Windows-friendly way by using the API properly.
It does. It uses SHGetFolderPath with csidl_PROFILE which gets us something like "C:/Documents And Settings/user". Note that for data files like the .ghci file it's probably better to use getAppUserDataDirectory "ghci" which will return $HOME/.ghci on unix systems and "C:/Documents And Settings/user/Application Data/ghci" on Windows. Duncan