You're certainly right that there are nicer ways to write that script. My point with the sample script above is that I'm currently using a Windows-style HOME path, and it works fine.
Chances are there are a bunch of other users out there who also use a Windows-style HOME path in messy .bat files - I just wanted to illuminate that making Windows paths illegal is likely to break a whole bunch of users' scripts, and really offers no benefit. On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Andrey Repin <anrdae...@yandex.ru> wrote: > Greetings, Nicholas Clark! > >> I totally agree that setting HOME to a relative-path is probably a Bad >> Idea, and can/should be undefined behavior. As for absolute paths (and >> whether they should be POSIX, Windows, or either), that's a little >> less cut and dry for me. > >> I currently use a ton of scripts of the general form: > >> -------- >> Cygwin.bat: >> @echo off > >> @pushd %~dp0 >> @set TOP=%CD% >> @popd > > This wraps into > > SET TOP=%~dp0 > > (If at all necessary to wrap it like that.) > >> set PATH=C:\Windows\SYSTEM32;C:\Windows > > SET > PATH=%~dp0installation\usr\sbin;%~dp0installation\bin;%SystemRoot%\System32;%SystemRoot% > >> @set HOME=%TOP%\home\%username% >> @chdir %TOP%\installation\bin > > That's just plain wrong and should not be done to begin with. > >> @start mintty.exe -e %TOP%\installation\bin\bash.exe --login -i > > START /B mintty.exe - > >> exit > > Don't call "EXIT" unless you have no other choice. > >> for using Cygwin in a user-level installation to my local directory. > > Cygwin don't care, what level you are using it from, as long as the > environment is set up correctly. > >> It's not a big deal to go through these and update them if Cygwin >> loses its ability to interpret Windows-style HOME paths, but there are >> probably a lot of users out there who aren't on the mailing list and >> wouldn't know that this change was happening until their installations >> broke. > >> So I'm in camp 'leave it as-is', maybe with the exception of >> disallowing relative paths. :) > > I don't know how to say it politely, so I would be blunt: Your setup is wrong. > There's at least two ways to do it right, but none of them is coming close to > what you have right now. > Cygwin offers ability to make all you want pretty straight without any > tantric scripts. > > > -- > With best regards, > Andrey Repin > Thursday, August 6, 2015 03:07:01 > > Sorry for my terrible english... > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
