From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] [mingw]: Use $LOCALAPPDATA as a possible root for cachedir. Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 16:03:22 +0200 Organization: AvatarAcademy.nl Message-ID: References: <1297784103-18322-1-git-send-email-janneke-list@xs4all.nl> <1297784103-18322-6-git-send-email-janneke-list@xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1305900225 31705 80.91.229.12 (20 May 2011 14:03:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 14:03:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 20 16:03:40 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QNQIj-0003t1-QH for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 May 2011 16:03:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34395 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QNQIj-0008Qe-5y for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 May 2011 10:03:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54649) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QNQIe-0008QW-Ho for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 May 2011 10:03:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QNQIa-0001xZ-3F for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 May 2011 10:03:32 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.34]:4339) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QNQIZ-0001xL-Qa for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 May 2011 10:03:28 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (peder.onsbrabantnet.nl [88.159.206.46] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p4KE3PIA046467; Fri, 20 May 2011 16:03:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from janneke@gnu.org) X-Url: http://AvatarAcademy.nl In-Reply-To: (Andy Wingo's message of "Sun, 01 May 2011 13:42:06 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/23.3 (cygwin) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 X-Received-From: 194.109.24.34 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:12517 Archived-At: Andy Wingo writes: >> * libguile/load.c (scm_init_load_path) [MINGW32]: Use $LOCALAPPDATA >> to avoid having a NULL cachedir, while still allowing override by >> using $XDG_CACHE_HOME. > > What sets LOCALAPPDATA? If it is the right thing on Windows then I am > OK with applying this patch. Asking google, it seems that this is a newer Windows versions thing. Quite probably using plain $APPDATA is better. Whether either one is the right thing on windows -- if there's even such a thing -- I really don't have a clue, you would need to ask a windows guru for that. Greetings, Jan --=20 Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar=C2=AE http://AvatarAcademy.nl