Re: NSHomeDirectory() problems on windows

[Martin Brecher]

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S.J.Chun wrote:
| But the problem is that in Windows XP, %HOMEPATH% also contains
| spaces, for my case, %HOMEPATH% is \Documents and Settings\NeXT, so
| %USERPROFILE% or %HOMEDRIVE% %HOMEPATH% are equal and I think this is
|  valid result(why two should have different value?). I think we have
| two kind of choices, one is using operating systems native home
| directory mechanism or create our own mechanism which should be
| platform independent.
|
| PS) My opion is using OS's native mechanism. Why GNUstep should not
| work on space contained directory or path? Also, I can just create
| directory or path which contains spaces. So, supporting is more
| appropriate choice than giving up.
|

Personally, I'd rather set some custom GSHOMEDIR variable on win32 than
having all the hassle with USERPROFILE, HOMEPATH and HOMEDIR.
The only thing that goes there is the stuff within GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT
anyway, like Defaults, Frameworks, Resources etc.

Then again, someone suggested using short names (dos names) for
paths which contain spaces - that sounds like a good workaround.


Btw, mingw/msys have their own problems with the USERPROFILE variable, too.

Greetings,
Martin

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