From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2005-02-28T11:14:57+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyGems 0.8.6 (was Re: [ANN] RubyGems 0.8.5)

Hi,

Jim Weirich wrote:

> RubyGems checks for the following environment variables in searching for a 
> home directory:
> 
>    ENV['HOME']
>    ENV['USERPROFILE']
>    ENV['HOMEDRIVE']:ENV['HOMEPATH']
> 
> If none the above are defined, it tries to expand "~".  If that fails, it 
> defaults to "C:/" on windows and "/" otherwise.
>

I get the same result even though ENV['USERPROFILE'] and
ENV['HOMEDRIVE']+ENV['HOMEPATH'] are defined and have the same value.

> I'm not sure why it is not picking it up your situation.   Hmmmm.
> 

Thanks for your attention,
-- shanko