From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-07-21T02:10:38+09:00
Subject: Re: BUG: CGI.Session on Windows

Hi,

In message "BUG: CGI.Session on Windows"
    on 03/07/20, Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> writes:

|'/tmp' is not valid under windows and normally (standart
|configuration) CGI's don't get the environment variables from the
|system. So could we change this into
| 
|"dir = option['tmpdir'] || ENV['TMP'] || Dir::temp_directory
|
|and add a "temp_directory" method to the Dir class that returns '/tmp'
|or on windows the value of the "GetTempPath" function.
|
|I would highly recommand this change. It makes the newbies life much
|easier.

Interesting idea.  We have same problem for tempfile library.  Maybe
it can be defined by Ruby library.  I think GetTempPath can be
accessed via Win32API, right?

							matz.