Ironruby core - Jul 2008 - HOME and USERPROFILE aliasing under Windows

MRI currently expects the HOME environment variable to be set under Windows.
Various operations involving ~ and Dir will fail if HOME is not defined.

However, HOME is rarely defined under Windows by default. Instead USERPROFILE is
what normally represents HOME. IronRuby is considering aliasing HOME to
USERPROFILE if HOME isn''t already defined at startup time.

Does this seem like something reasonable to do in our implementation?

Thanks,
-John

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same problem reported at #20475. and i agree that HOME Env should  
handle by that class

-Jirapong

On Jul 2, 2008, at 5:31 AM, "John Lam (IRONRUBY)"  
<jflam at microsoft.com> wrote:
> MRI currently expects the HOME environment variable to be set under  
> Windows. Various operations involving ~ and Dir will fail if HOME is  
> not defined.
>
>
>
> However, HOME is rarely defined under Windows by default. Instead  
> USERPROFILE is what normally represents HOME. IronRuby is  
> considering aliasing HOME to USERPROFILE if HOME isn''t already  
> defined at startup time.
>
>
>
> Does this seem like something reasonable to do in our implementation?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> -John
>
>
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