Re: $ENV HOME on windows

[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
A. Sinan Unur
<1usa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>], who wrote in article <Xns991E5FEC1439Casu1cornelledu@xxxxxxxxx>:
What puzzles me deep is why Perl on Windows is not faking $ENV
{HOME}
if $ENV{HOMEPATH} and $ENV{HOMEPATH} are both present... I think
this

One of these should be $ENV{HOMEDRIVE}

Yeah, thanks.

would remove at least 10-20% of porting problems...

Which might be a problem for those of us who create a D:\Home and move
users' 'My Documents' folders to directories under D:\Home\<userid> and
add a HOME variable to each user's environment. I am assuming such
problems can be avoided by checking for the existence of of $ENV{HOME}
before faking it.

Hmm, I thought that this would be clear without saying... Sorry!

However, this means that the check and the decision as
to whether to fake $ENV{HOME} should not be done at install time but
each time a script is run.

Each time the interpreter starts.

Hope this helps,
Ilya
.

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