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Re^2: Should File::HomeDir honor $ENV{HOME} on Darwin?by xdg (Monsignor) |
| on Dec 18, 2008 at 20:50 UTC ( [id://731388]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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Honestly, I'm not convinced $ENV{HOME} should be used on any platform... If it weren't there already for Unix and Win32 (and MacOS9), I probably wouldn't advocate for it. The situation that got me was actually in testing. I'm using a module that uses File::HomeDir to find a config file and I wanted to substitute a new config file in a temporary directory. My quick and dirty approach was just to set $ENV{HOME} to the temporary directory, which turned out to work everywhere except Darwin. Instead, I'll probably now mock File::HomeDir and override my_home to return the temporary directory. -xdg Code written by xdg and posted on PerlMonks is public domain. It is provided as is with no warranties, express or implied, of any kind. Posted code may not have been tested. Use of posted code is at your own risk.
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