Re: NSTemporaryDirectory() && Windows

[Sheldon Gill]

> > Nevertheless GNUstep should handle this. Either by changing 
> > NSTemporaryDirectory() or by hacking openStepPathFromLocal and/or 
> > stringByStandardizingPath.
> > I guess the  task  of GNUstep is to encapsulate all this awful operating 
> > system functions. So GNUstep have be to hacked.
>
> I don't understand your reasoning here.
>
> The NSTemporaryDirectory() function is supposed to supply the name of a 
> temporary directory that your program can use to store its own private 
> temporary files in.  You are not supposed to make any assumption about where 
> this temporary directory is.  This path is not (and should not be) user-visible 
> in any way,  and so as long as it works there is, as far as I can see, no 
> reason why it should look like anything in particular (certainly code should 
> not rely on it being any particular directory).

I agree with this. It gives you a path to use. You use it. User 
friendliness isn't the issue.

[ displayNameForPath] would be the way to provide a user string.

> What exactly is the logic of wanting it to be 'c:\Dokumente und 
> Einstellungen\Administrator\' ?
> If you want to store files in 'c:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Administrator\.', 
> I would have thought you should be using that as the file name rather than 
> using NSTemporaryDirectory()

I believe he meant

"C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp"

Win2k has per user temporary directories.


Regards,
Sheldon