Re: Can we assume HOME is defined in the environment?

[Jose E. Marchesi]

>> In other words: can we safely assume HOME
>> is defined?  I am thinking on mingw targets here..
>
> Good point. Indeed, while on Unix you can assume that HOME is set,
> except in services that get started during boot time, on Windows
> HOME is not set by default; instead you need to use the concatenation
> of ${HOMEDRIVE} and ${HOMEPATH}. It was like this in Windows 95, and
> is still like this in Windows 10.

Well, since XDG is probably useless in Windows systems (lucky Windows
users :P) I am going with this:

try map_load_path = getenv ("XDG_DATA_HOME") + map_load_path;
catch if E_inval {
  try map_load_path = getenv ("HOME") + "/.local/share/poke:" + map_load_path;
  catch if E_inval {}
}