From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-08-25T23:35:03+09:00
Subject: Re: OS independent way to read/write paths?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobu.nokada@softhome.net [mailto:nobu.nokada@softhome.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 5:18 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: OS independent way to read/write paths?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> At Thu, 25 Aug 2005 06:42:07 +0900,
> Daniel Berger wrote in [ruby-talk:153508]:
> > Second, I would use ENV["HOME"] || ENV["USERPROFILE"] over a hard 
> > coded home
> > directory on Windows.
> 
> In 1.9, ENV["HOME"] will be set to %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%, 
> %USERPROFILE%, or Personal Folder, at the start up.  But now 
> I noticed it is not in 1.8, should it be backported?
> 
> -- 
> Nobu Nakada

I can't think of a good reason not to.  Unless anyone objects, I say
backport it.

Regards,

Dan