On 20 October 2010 13:53, Giovanni Piero Deretta <gpderetta@gmail.com>wrote:
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Christian Holmquist <c.holmquist@gmail.com> wrote:
On 20 October 2010 11:42, Alexander Churanov < alexanderchuranov@gmail.com>wrote:
Are those people advocating for $HOME on Windows to be anything else than My Documents really Windows users? I've been trough development of fixing pre-Vista developed applications to work, and the times where one could just ignore access rights on Windows is long gone. IMO Boost.Filesystem should follow best practices for each supported platform, and using C:\ as default user folder or the obscure USERPROFILE is IMO not good practice on Windows.
USERPROFILE on my Windows machine points to <root>\Users\<username>. This is pretty much the only dir by default where my normal user id has write permission. This is where Documents, Desktop, Favorites, Appdata user directories are. Is there any reason *not* to use USERPROFILE on Vista or later?
On Windows 7/Vista USERPROFILE seems definitely right, I apologize. At work on XP with some kind of networked domain storage thing for My Documents, C:\Documents and settings\<username> seems a little like bogus, but maybe the domain/installation is just ill-configured, and doesn't serve as a good example. Christian