[GRASS-dev] does GRASS need HOME to be defined?

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

Glynn Clements wrote
> Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote:
> 
>> regarding windows, the configuration directory is defined by the
>> %APPDATA%
>> variable; HOME is defined by %HOMEDRIVE% and %HOMEPATH%.
>> 
>> it expands to:
>> 
>> >>> import os
>> >>> os.getenv('HOME')
>> 'C:\\Users\\yourusername'
>> >>> os.getenv('APPDATA')
>> 'C:\\Users\\yourusername\\AppData\\Roaming'
>> 
>> would it harm if %HOME% would be extended from _C:\Users\yourusername\_
>> to
>> _C:\Users\yourusername\Documents_ in windows?
> 
> Note that:
> 
> 1. %HOMEPATH% isn't guaranteed to be Users\
> <username>
> .
> 
> 2. The preferred way of referencing that directory is %USERPROFILE%.
> 
> 3. While %USERPROFILE%\Documents is created automatically, that isn't
> guaranteed to be the location of the user's "My Documents" folder (it
> can be changed, and in networked environments is typically located on
> a file server).
> 
> FWIW, the "My Documents" location can be obtained by querying the
> registry key
> 
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User
> Shell Folders\Personal
> 
> then expanding the result; the default value is "%USERPROFILE\Documents".

thanks for your reply.

I've let it untouched; solved it here by:

https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-commit/2016-November/040769.html
set R_USER if %USERPROFILE%\Documents\R\ exists to catch most common cases
of private R libraries in windows






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best regards
Helmut
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