ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

[Simon Marlow]

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
>> %HOME% is the de-facto standard for Unix-like
>> shell applications that were ported to Windows and
>> need a home directory. If someone sets that, it
>> means they want to use the folder in that way. And
>> yes, that is the way GHCi has been working until
>> now, so I think it should still be supported if someone
>> sets it.
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> Yes, that is a problem. A user who sets %HOME% has
>> indicated that this should be used. I think that should be
>> returned by getHomeDirectory.
> 
> Exactly!

I can imagine that you might want GHCi to look in $HOME, for backwards 
compatibility.  But do you really want getHomeDirectory to return $HOME? 
That's a very un-Windowsy thing to do, and I don't think we ought to be 
baking Un*x behaviour into APIs that are supposed to do whatever is native 
on the current platform.

Cheers,
	Simon