Need some help with Win98/WinMe bug

[Jonathan Maasland]

Hi all,

I'd like to ask for some help here on the list because, as you might
know, I don't have access to a Windows machine here and I'd like to fix
a recently opened bug concerning Win98/WinMe.

The BIG question, sortof, is if someone can verify which of the ENV
variables are set: USERPROFILE and/or 'HOME'?

---
puts ENV['USERPROFILE']
puts ENV['HOME']
---

Thanks very much for helping me.

Jonathan M
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[Laurent Julliard]

Jonathan Maasland wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to ask for some help here on the list because, as you might
> know, I don't have access to a Windows machine here and I'd like to fix
> a recently opened bug concerning Win98/WinMe.
>
> The BIG question, sortof, is if someone can verify which of the ENV
> variables are set: USERPROFILE and/or 'HOME'?
>
> ---
> puts ENV['USERPROFILE']
> puts ENV['HOME']
> ---
>
> Thanks very much for helping me.
>
> Jonathan M

On my old Win98 box where I have the same problem as the one reported
in the FR bug tracker, none of the variables are set. Note: I don't
have any user account setup on my Win98 machine.

Laurent

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[Jonathan Maasland]

Thanks for taking a look at this Laurent.
Having none of those ENV-vars set is the cause for bug #3815 FreeRIDE crashes out of the box on Win ME

If you look at readers.rb (freebase/lib/freebase/readers.rb) starting line 32:
----
def self.setup
  $FREEBASE_APPLICATION = "freeride" unless $FREEBASE_APPLICATION
  if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /(mswin32|mingw32)/
    @@userdir = File.join(ENV['USERPROFILE'], $FREEBASE_APPLICATION) unless ENV['USERPROFILE'].nil?
  else
     @@userdir = File.join(ENV['HOME'],".#{$FREEBASE_APPLICATION}") unless ENV['HOME'].nil?
  end
end
----

Because the env-vars aren't set @@userdir is never initialized.
What would be a sensible default here? (A .freeride directory in the C: root?)

Jonathan

Laurent Julliard wrote:

Jonathan Maasland wrote:
  

Hi all,

I'd like to ask for some help here on the list because, as you might 
know, I don't have access to a Windows machine here and I'd like to fix 
a recently opened bug concerning Win98/WinMe.

The BIG question, sortof, is if someone can verify which of the ENV 
variables are set: USERPROFILE and/or 'HOME'?

---
puts ENV['USERPROFILE']
puts ENV['HOME']
---

Thanks very much for helping me.

Jonathan M
    

On my old Win98 box where I have the same problem as the one reported 
in the FR bug tracker, none of the variables are set. Note: I don't 
have any user account setup on my Win98 machine.

Laurent

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[Curt Hibbs-2]

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I think that c:\freeride would be a reasonable default.

Curt

On 3/13/06, Jonathan Maasland <nochoice@...> wrote:

Thanks for taking a look at this Laurent.
Having none of those ENV-vars set is the cause for bug #3815 FreeRIDE crashes out of the box on Win ME

If you look at readers.rb (freebase/lib/freebase/readers.rb) starting line 32:
----
def self.setup
  $FREEBASE_APPLICATION = "freeride" unless $FREEBASE_APPLICATION
  if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /(mswin32|mingw32)/
    @@userdir = File.join(ENV['USERPROFILE'], $FREEBASE_APPLICATION) unless ENV['USERPROFILE'].nil?
  else
     @@userdir = File.join(ENV['HOME'],".#{$FREEBASE_APPLICATION}") unless ENV['HOME'].nil?
  end
end
----

Because the env-vars aren't set @@userdir is never initialized.
What would be a sensible default here? (A .freeride directory in the C: root?)

Jonathan

Laurent Julliard wrote:

Jonathan Maasland wrote:
  

Hi all,

I'd like to ask for some help here on the list because, as you might 
know, I don't have access to a Windows machine here and I'd like to fix 
a recently opened bug concerning Win98/WinMe.


The BIG question, sortof, is if someone can verify which of the ENV 
variables are set: USERPROFILE and/or 'HOME'?

---
puts ENV['USERPROFILE']
puts ENV['HOME']
---

Thanks very much for helping me.


Jonathan M
    

On my old Win98 box where I have the same problem as the one reported 
in the FR bug tracker, none of the variables are set. Note: I don't 
have any user account setup on my Win98 machine.

Laurent


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[Laurent Julliard]

Curt Hibbs wrote:
> I think that c:\freeride would be a reasonable default.
>
> Curt
>

Could be... except that if you install a new version of FreeRide
you'll very likely loose the .freeride directory and all your settings...

This being said I don't see where to store this file other than
c:\freeride or rather than hardcoding one should probably set the ENV
variable with the directory where FreeRIDE is installed so that who
install elsewhere are also fine.

Laurent
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[Dave Burt]

Curt said:

> I think that c:\freeride would be a reasonable default.

Don't use the root. Use C:\Program Files\freeride or C:\My Documents\.freeride.

Really, "C:\My Documents" is as close to ENV["HOME"] as you get on Windows
98/ME.

Cheers,
Dave

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