Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH 3/4] Remove ##sys#expand-home-path.

[Peter Bex]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 07:58:02AM +0100, Florian Zumbiehl wrote:
> Remove ##sys#expand-home-path as shell expansion has no place in a filesystem
> API.

I've moved the ~ behaviour to a new procedure in "utils" called "ep" and
updated the NEWS file and docs.

The signed off patch is attached.

I'm not 100% sure how to handle this, as it's a backwards-incompatible
change.  Pushing it as-is could possibly cause breakage in existing
programs, but it will also fix programs that don't knowingly rely on
this behaviour.

BTW: This behaviour isn't really compatible with the shell's, since it
disallows strings formatted like ~username from being expanded to that
user's homedir.  The shell would expand ~ to the current user's homedir
only in a string where it's immediately succeeded by a slash, like ~/foo.
This will now expand to the current user's homedir with foo pasted at
the end, like "/home/peterfoo".  I don't know if this is a bug or
intended behaviour, so I kept it the way it was before.

Cheers,
Peter
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