Re: [BUGS] More SSL questions..

Magnus, where are you on getting a patch to
fe-connect.c::pqGetHomeDirectory() for Win32? Right now the code is
reading USERPROFILE or HOME.

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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >> The comment in the API for the profile directory says:
> >> Version 5.0. The user's profile folder. A typical path is
> >C:\Documents
> >> and Settings\username. Applications should not create files
> >or folders
> >> at this level; they should put their data under the
> >locations referred
> >> to by CSIDL_APPDATA or CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA.
> >>
> >> I think we should stay away from that one if possible.
> >>
> >> For the MSI install we could always add icons to edit the
> >config file if
> >> people have a hard time finding it...
> >>
> >> The files are not hidden any more than they are hidden on
> >unix by being
> >> named ".postgresql". I don't see this as a big problem.
> >
> >With Unix you know you can do cd .postgresql or 'ls -a'. I think on
> >Win32 almost everyone is using the file explorer and I don't see any
> >clean way for them to get into "Application Data" other than by
> >modifying the directory properties. Do you?
>
> First of all, I can confirm that on a completely fresh XP installation
> the folder *is* hidden. In case it was still needed confirmation.
>
>
>
> The equivalent command on windows is "dir /a". Works just fine. Just use
> dir /a "%USERPROFILE%"
> will show application data just fine.
>
> Or for that matter cd "%USERPROFILE%\Application Data". Or if you start
> a fresh commandprompt I think it defaults to your profile dir in which
> case you just do cd "Application Data". Oh, and tab-complete works fine
> with hidden folders...
>
> A user who doesn't know to use the commandline and doesn't know how to
> view hidden files in the Explorer (which for anybody who works with
> windows past office is the first thing they turn on in a new install) is
> going to be confused *no matter where the file is*. Because he needs to
> find the file. And since the file is not ".txt", it doesn't open with
> notepad when double-clicked - it brings up a weird dialog asking you if
> you want to go to a MS web service to get help to determine which
> program to use to open the file. And hell, it's a *textfile*, where is
> the GUI. If he can get past the double-click and hey-its-a-textfile,
> then the fact that it's in the *windows standard location* is not going
> to give him much problems, even if the standard location is hidden by
> default.
>
> Bottom line: I think you're greatly overestimating the trouble caused by
> the fact that the appdata folder is hidden.
>
> //Magnus
>

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