Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH] Write logs to $HOME/.gEDA/logs/.

[Bob Paddock <bob.paddock@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Peter TB Brett <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sunday 18 January 2009 01:07:13 Bob Paddock wrote:
>> > I'd appreciate comments as to whether this will work (or even compile)
>> > on Windows!
>>
>> +  dir_path = g_build_filename (g_getenv ("HOME"),
>> +                               ".gEDA", "logs", NULL);
>>
>> Should test to see if HOME really exists on Windows,
>> it usually doesn't by default.  You don't want to report
>> the failure of HOME not existing in the log during
>> the install process.
>>
>
> What should it do if HOME doesn't exist? That seems like a pathological case.

This *is* Windows we are talking about here.  It is rare that HOME does exists.
TEMP generally exists as a envar  to a local user directory.  Use it if HOME
does not exists.  TMP sometimes exists, and usually but not always, is
the same as
TEMP.

> Default to using the CWD?

Probably a warning and bail, telling them how to create HOME.  Some IT
departments lock down
Program Files so you can't write there.  It can be hard to tell how
the current directory
is relevant to the end instillation during the install process.





If it is Vista you can't.
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