Re: NSHomeDirectory() problems on windows

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 08:51 AM, S.J.Chun wrote:

> But the problem is that in Windows XP, %HOMEPATH% also contains 
> spaces, for my case, %HOMEPATH% is
> \Documents and Settings\NeXT, so %USERPROFILE% or %HOMEDRIVE% 
> %HOMEPATH% are equal and I
> think this is valid result(why two should have different value?). I 
> think we have two kind of choices, one is using
> operating systems native home directory mechanism or create our own 
> mechanism which should be platform
> independent.
>
> PS)
> My opion is using OS's native mechanism. Why GNUstep should not work 
> on space contained directory or path?
> Also, I can just create directory or path which contains spaces. So, 
> supporting is more appropriate choice than
> giving up.

It seems that it's impossible to support it for building software 
because
the make program is designed on the assumption that spaces do not
appear in paths.

I guess we could remove the check from the base library, so a home
directory containing a space would work at runtime, even though any
attempt to build software with that setting would bomb.  Perhaps that
was what Nicola meant to imply when he said

> Make (not gnustep-make, I'm talking of make itself) has been designed
> thinking that filenames would never contain spaces.  It's an implicit
> design assumption which can't be fixed.
>
> On the other hand, this issue should only arise when compiling, not 
> when
> using the software.