Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] add pathname-expand

[Felix]

> Hi Felix,

Hi, Mario!

> 
> On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 14:27:43 +0200 (CEST) Felix <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> This patch adds "pathname-expand", a procedure I found in Gambit's
>> library and which is quite useful. This does "~"-expansion and makes
>> relative pathnames absolute either by merging the current-directory or
>> a user-provided base directory.
> 
> Should pathname-expand replace the proposed `ep' procedure (#1001)?
> 

Yes, that was the intention.


> Some time ago there was a discussion about what to do when no home can
> be determined:
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2013-07/msg00009.html
> 
> People seem to agree that an error should be raised in those cases.
> What do you think?

I don't think an error is useful. I'd rather use ".".


cheers,
felix