Re: bug in NSUserDefaults

[Erik Dalen]

On 2002-02-13 14:36:10 +0000 Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@brainstorm.co.uk> 
wrote:

> On Wednesday, February 13, 2002, at 01:22 PM, Erik Dalen wrote:
>
>
> > On 2002-02-13 10:50:45 +0000 Richard Frith-Macdonald 
> <richard@brainstorm.co.uk>
> > wrote:
>
>
> >> On Wednesday, February 13, 2002, at 10:49 AM, Erik Dalen wrote:
>
>
> >> >> > So if the GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT is anything else than ~/GNUstep , Services
> >> won't
> >> >> > work..
>
> >> >> > I'd definitely call that a bug.
>
> >> >> Yes ... can you let me know under what circumstances this happens ... as
> >> far
> >> >> as I
> >> >> know it doesn't.
>
> >> > everytime I load an app..
> >> > I tried copying ~/Services to ~/GNUstep/Services and then it worked. The
> >> apps
> >> > got some services that is.
>
> >> > But make_services builds the list of services in ~/Services
> >> Are you using very old code?  As far as I can see the GSServicesManager code
> >> was updated to fix this a little
> >> over a year ago, and I can't think of anywhere else that's likely to cause
> >> this.
>
>
>
> > nope, I upgrade to the newest CVS stuff every day.Ok ... found the problem 
> ... looks like confusion in the way NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomas() works
> for NSUserDirectory.
>
> Everyone using the function (myself included) assumed it was using 
> GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT, where in fact it
> was not  - it was taking NSHomeDirectory() and appending /GNUstep ... which is 
> the wrong thing to do
> by any reckoning ... see below.
ok. That's the way the NSUserDefaults does it as well currently.

> However, I'm not entirely sure how it should behave ... in MacOS-X there is no 
> equivalent of
> GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT, and thus the home directory is always the same as the unix 
> users home directory.
>
> In GNUstep, there is a separation between the unix home directory, and the root 
> of the users
> GNUstep stuff ... the latter is usually a subdirectory of the former.
>
> Perhaps we need another directory key for the function so we can differentiate 
> between the two
> concepts - but then, should NSUserDirectory refer to the unix home directory, 
> or the directory
> set by GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT ?
>
> If we make the NSUserDirectory key refer to GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT, then any apps 
> ported from MacOS
> will be surprised that they do not get to see the contents of the users unix 
> home directory.
well, they'd get more surprised if they weren't able to see the gnustep stuff. 
But I think it should point to the same location as GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT.
I also think that the NSUserDefaults should work at that location.

/Erik