From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
Cc: orgads@gmail.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix cache dir resolving on Windows
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2019 16:17:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834l55tjej.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4b1430a8-e637-6582-238b-e29f5010d7f0@simark.ca> (message from Simon Marchi on Tue, 4 Jun 2019 11:05:52 -0400)
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2019 11:05:52 -0400
>
> > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/shell/knownfolderid
> > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/shell/csidl
> >
> > But maybe we don't care about that. I know that many applications
> > ported from Unix don't.
>
> If it's not too complicated to do The Right Thing (use these and be a good citizen,
> I would prefer that. But I won't be the one writing the change for Windows
> and maintaining it, so I won't force it either.
If we want to follow the recommendations, it's just the matter of
using a different environment variable: APPDATA instead of
USERPROFILE. It is usually a subdirectory of USERPROFILE.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-04 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-03 19:37 orgads
2019-06-04 14:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-04 15:06 ` Simon Marchi
2019-06-04 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-06-07 6:21 ` orgads
2019-06-07 6:23 ` Orgad Shaneh
2019-06-07 6:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-07 6:27 ` orgads
2019-06-07 7:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-07 8:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <CAGHpTB+Y+kO=ZiKtTft3yG4mMR+27DYfqJGQWBLvu=VKCgRyLw@mail.gmail.com>
2019-06-07 12:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-07 18:10 ` Tom Tromey
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