From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-12-11T00:26:07+09:00
Subject: Re: autotest broken on winxp?

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Daniel Berger wrote:
> David Vallner wrote:
>> Jeff wrote:
>>> I haven't tried autotest on windows for a long time, but I thought it=

>>> worked back then.  Now, I get this error:
>>>
>>> C:\dev\row>autotest
>>> c:/program
>>> files/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-3.4.2/lib/autotest.rb:294:i=
n
>>> `expand_path': couldn't find HOME environment -- expanding
>>> `~/.autotest' (ArgumentError)
>>>         from c:/program
>>
>> Do you have the HOME environment variable set?
>>
>> From ri File.expand_path:
>>
>> The given pathname may start with a ``+~+'', which expands to the
>> process owner's home directory (the environment variable +HOME+ must b=
e
>> set correctly). ``+~+_user_'' expands to the named user's home directo=
ry.
>>
>> This is arguably a bug in File.expand_path rather than ZenTest. (On
>> Windows systems, a fallback to ENV['HOME'] should be ENV['HOMEDRIVE'] =
+
>> ENV['HOMEPATH']. Wonder where you report those.
>=20
> This has been discussed before.  See http://tinyurl.com/y52hs3, among
> others.
>=20

Erght, I forgot about %USERPROFILE%. Well, that leaves the whole thing
rather fuzzy. So, bug in autotest for relying on File.expand_path with a
tilde, or Ruby for letting people rely on it? Or the usual, let's blame
Microsoft *ducks*.

David Vallner


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