From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: 40977@debbugs.gnu.org, Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
Subject: bug#40977: --load-path does not honor ~
Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 15:14:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k11u8oo6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200430193439.0db54d2f@scratchpost.org> (Danny Milosavljevic's message of "Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:34:39 +0200")
Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:
>> After processing options, guix need to "expanduser()" (as it is called
>> in Python) on all arguments which are paths.
>
> Please don't do it.
>
> UNIX has its warts, and this is a well-known one (use ${HOME} instead).
Seconded.
Tilde expansion is performed by the shell. In the case of
‘--foo=~/bar’, tilde expansion does not happen because ~ is right in the
middle of a string.
It’s admittedly annoying, but it’s not something Guix itself should
paper over. Doing that would open a can of worms, as illustrated by the
example Tobias gave.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-02 13:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-30 8:15 bug#40977: --load-path does not honor ~ Hartmut Goebel
2020-04-30 15:31 ` zimoun
2020-04-30 16:37 ` zimoun
2020-04-30 16:42 ` Hartmut Goebel
2020-04-30 16:50 ` zimoun
2020-04-30 17:34 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-04-30 17:53 ` Leo Famulari
2020-04-30 18:14 ` zimoun
2020-05-02 13:14 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-05-02 13:55 ` zimoun
2020-05-02 22:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-30 19:21 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-04-30 20:54 ` zimoun
2020-05-01 6:51 ` Bengt Richter
2020-05-01 15:24 ` zimoun
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