From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 59477 invoked by alias); 4 Jun 2019 16:17:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 59468 invoked by uid 89); 4 Jun 2019 16:17:20 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy= X-HELO: eggs.gnu.org Received: from eggs.gnu.org (HELO eggs.gnu.org) (209.51.188.92) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 04 Jun 2019 16:17:19 +0000 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38664) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hYC7h-0008Jb-CB; Tue, 04 Jun 2019 12:17:17 -0400 Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1410 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hYC7g-0007jZ-Ne; Tue, 04 Jun 2019 12:17:17 -0400 Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2019 16:17:00 -0000 Message-Id: <834l55tjej.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: Simon Marchi CC: orgads@gmail.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <4b1430a8-e637-6582-238b-e29f5010d7f0@simark.ca> (message from Simon Marchi on Tue, 4 Jun 2019 11:05:52 -0400) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix cache dir resolving on Windows References: <20190603193716.4861-1-orgads@gmail.com> <837ea1tnpa.fsf@gnu.org> <4b1430a8-e637-6582-238b-e29f5010d7f0@simark.ca> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-06/txt/msg00064.txt.bz2 > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org > From: Simon Marchi > 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.