[Ironruby-core] HOME and USERPROFILE aliasing under Windows

[Jirapong]

same problem reported at #20475. and i agree that HOME Env should  
handle by that class

-Jirapong

On Jul 2, 2008, at 5:31 AM, "John Lam (IRONRUBY)"  
<jflam at microsoft.com> wrote:

> MRI currently expects the HOME environment variable to be set under  
> Windows. Various operations involving ~ and Dir will fail if HOME is  
> not defined.
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> However, HOME is rarely defined under Windows by default. Instead  
> USERPROFILE is what normally represents HOME. IronRuby is  
> considering aliasing HOME to USERPROFILE if HOME isn't already  
> defined at startup time.
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> Does this seem like something reasonable to do in our implementation?
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> Thanks,
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> -John
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