From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: %AppData% on Windows instead of %UserProfile% by default?
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 05:52:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vbmlkrdg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20141111T223433-256@post.gmane.org>
> From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:46:19 +0000 (UTC)
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
> > More importantly, we are following the platform guidelines, which
> > say:
> >
> > CSIDL_PROFILE Version 5.0. The user's profile folder. A typical
> > FOLDERID_Profile path is C:\Users\username.
> > Applications should not create files or folders
> > at this level; they should put their data under
> > the locations referred to by CSIDL_APPDATA or
> > CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA.
>
> I think that it depends on how you interpret "their data".
> Applications store data in %APPDATA%, but data which are invisible to the user
> (browser web cache, history, etc.)
> It is hardly the case for .emacs.d, it is not a byproduct of running Emacs,
> or at least not everything in there.
That is true, which is why I said we try to be compatible "as is
practically possible". Emacs does writes into files we put there.
> And from this point of view, %UserProfile% is closer to what $HOME is under Unix.
No, it is farther: it sufers from the same problems as %AppData%, and
on top of that, platform guidelines request that no files are put
there, only directories.
> Actually, to make Emacs more "Windows" friendly would probably require
> to setup a configuration quite different from the GNU/Unix one.
But that's not what we are trying to do. We are trying to pick up a
reasonable default for HOME when HOME is not set in the environment.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-12 3:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-10 16:26 %AppData% on Windows instead of %UserProfile% by default? Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-10 16:48 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-10 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-10 18:26 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-10 17:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-10 17:49 ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-10 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-11 21:46 ` Fabrice Popineau
2014-11-12 3:52 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-11-12 15:14 ` Matthias Meulien
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