Re: NSHomeDirectory() problems on windows

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 10:56 AM, Nicola Pero wrote:
> > I agree ... but I don't know if it is possible/practicable to fix 
> > this ...
> > certainly I don't have time to go through the makefiles system
> > and try to get it working with spaces in directory names :-(
>
> Make (not gnustep-make, I'm talking of make itself) has been designed
> thinking that filenames would never contain spaces.  It's an implicit
> design assumption which can't be fixed.

I remembered the problem was serious ... but I'd forgotten it was a 
fundamental
issue with make!

> On the other hand, this issue should only arise when compiling, not 
> when
> using the software.

So we *could* have two different behaviors for those different cases.
However, I'd rather keep it simple/consistent (I don't want to expend 
effort
maintaining complex code for windows when I don't even use it myself).