Unable to create directory $HOME/.bzr.conf on windows 2000

[Alexander Belchenko]

Marius Kruger wrote:
> this is just a minor snag for windows 2000 users
> (which is obviously workarounable with environment variable setting)
> But I believe one of bzr's goals is to be platform independant,
> which is why I sent this platform dependancy note:
> 
> windows 2000 doesnt like directory names starting with '.',
> I think a viable solutions are:
> 1) check for both ``$HOME/.bzr.conf/email`` and ``$HOME/bzr.conf/email``
> 2) check os and decide which to look for ``$HOME/.bzr.conf/email`` or 
> ``$HOME/bzr.conf/email``
> 3) change this dir name to ``$HOME/bzr.conf/email`` for all os's

I use Windows 2000 -- *my* russian Windows 2000 is very tolerant to 
directory with first dot in the name. I don't see either problem here.

May be your Windows is stuck with unappropriate $HOME? Well, if my 
patches somewhere will be merged into bzr.dev the problem with $HOME 
will be slightly fixed.

Alexander