Re: [Bug: 21.4.22] package manager trips over missing ~/.xemacs/
Vin Shelton writes:
Dear Sam,
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Sam <naesten(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> ================================================================
> When I try to run the package manager in an account with no
> ~/.xemacs/ yet (e.g. by typing M-x list-packages), first xemacs
> tells me that there's no package database yet, and would I like
> it to create one in ~/.xemacs/? When I say "yes", it proceeds to
> fail because ~/.xemacs doesn't exist yet either.
>
> This doesn't seem very smooth to me.
Me either. What does
(getenv 'HOME")
evaluate to?
My guess is "/home/Administrator". Does that directory exist? My
guess is it doesn't. My next guess would be that if we forced the
parent directory of $HOME/.xemacs to be created that this bug would
go away.
I think that probably on Windows we should find out how Windows
programs figure out where to put user stuff. Apparently Python knows
how to interpret "~" reasonably on Windows. We can probably copy it
as I believe the Python license is GPL compatible.
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