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diff --git a/crates/home/README.md b/crates/home/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..db2ba92 --- /dev/null +++ b/crates/home/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +[](https://docs.rs/home) +[](https://crates.io/crates/home) + +Canonical definitions of `home_dir`, `cargo_home`, and `rustup_home`. + +This provides the definition of `home_dir` used by Cargo and rustup, +as well functions to find the correct value of `CARGO_HOME` and +`RUSTUP_HOME`. + +The definition of `home_dir` provided by the standard library is +incorrect because it considers the `HOME` environment variable on +Windows. This causes surprising situations where a Rust program will +behave differently depending on whether it is run under a Unix +emulation environment like Cygwin or MinGW. Neither Cargo nor rustup +use the standard libraries definition - they use the definition here. + +This crate further provides two functions, `cargo_home` and +`rustup_home`, which are the canonical way to determine the location +that Cargo and rustup store their data. + +See [rust-lang/rust#43321]. + +[rust-lang/rust#43321]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/43321 + +## License + +MIT OR Apache-2.0 |