On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have not tested it yet but ~ does not seem to be very Windows friendly. > > File::HomeDir->my_home maybe?
On Windows, it uses ->my_documents instead of ->my_home, which at least drops .cpanreporter into a directory that users can easily get to. Back on Windows XP when I wrote CPAN::Reporter, ->my_home gave a directory that is hard to find and ->my_data is worse because that's the hidden "Application Data" file. Windows doesn't have any natural convention for user-editable text config files. And File::HomeDir arguably doesn't simplify matters. It's slightly less awful in Vista/Win7, since I think there is once again the concept of a "home" directory that is easily accessible. But switching locations is a pain for users -- c.f. CPAN and the issues with File::HomeDir::FreeDesktop making people lose their CPAN configs. I think the whole thing is a mess and figured that we'd start over when we get to 2nd gen clients. I wrote CPAN::Testers::Config to centralize config data and made that use ->my_home. I haven't yet attempted to switch over -- I think the effort is better spent unravelling CPAN::Reporter into a 2nd gen client, but I'm way too short on tuits for that so far. -- David
