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Don't consider $HOME when finding the home dir on Windows #2604

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@brson brson commented Apr 21, 2016

Same as rustup. HOME is not a windows thing so allowing it
to control the cargo directory means that the directory can
change depending on whether you are working under mingw or not.

This change makes Cargo always use the windows AppData path.

This is a breaking change but if anybody is actually impacted
Cargo should just silently start using a different directory. There
may be surprises related to cargo install.

Users of rustup and multirust won't be affected because both
override CARGO_HOME.

Same as rustup. HOME is not a windows thing so allowing it
to control the cargo directory means that the directory can
change depending on whether you are working under mingw or not.

This change makes Cargo always use the windows AppData path.

This is a breaking change but if anybody is actually impacted
Cargo should just silently start using a different directory. There
may be surprises related to `cargo install`.

Users of rustup and multirust won't be affected because both
override CARGO_HOME.
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I wonder if a simpler implementation may be to just remove HOME from the environment? It also seems like to keep cargo install working as it was previously that we should have logic like:

  1. If $HOME/.cargo exists, use that.
  2. Remove $HOME and check env::home_dir() and use that

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brson commented Apr 26, 2016

Sure. I'll make those changes.

alexcrichton added a commit to alexcrichton/cargo that referenced this pull request May 13, 2016
This commit ensures that we always return the same fallback value on Windows
regardless of whichever shell we happen to be run from. We do this by removing
the `$HOME` environment variable which `std::env::home_dir` will inspect to
force it to fall back to the system APIs. If the old directory exists then we
favor that one, but otherwise we favor locations like `C:\Users\$user`

Supercedes and closes rust-lang#2604
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Canonicalize CARGO_HOME fallback on Windows

This commit ensures that we always return the same fallback value on Windows
regardless of whichever shell we happen to be run from. We do this by removing
the `$HOME` environment variable which `std::env::home_dir` will inspect to
force it to fall back to the system APIs. If the old directory exists then we
favor that one, but otherwise we favor locations like `C:\Users\$user`

Supercedes and closes #2604
@bors bors closed this in #2681 May 13, 2016
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bors commented May 13, 2016

☔ The latest upstream changes (presumably #2681) made this pull request unmergeable. Please resolve the merge conflicts.

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