Re: Darwin and File::HomeDir

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Re^2: Darwin and File::HomeDir by Anonymous Monk on May 20, 2011 at 22:30 UTC
You could suggest a documentation update to File::HomeDir that highlights the fact that it's common for path with spaces to be returned. Seems backwards to me. cpan has for a long time been broken with regards to spaces in paths, and it is a known issue. I doubt a patch to File::HomeDir documentation is going to have an impact. Hmm, after thinking about it, such a warning actually sounds quite stupid , along the lines of warning: an integer can be a negative number :/	[reply]
Re^3: Darwin and File::HomeDir by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 20, 2011 at 23:26 UTC
warning: an integer can be a negative number :/ I actually suggested "warning: the return value can be negative", and I have indeed done that in situations where people tended to assume only positive numbers could be returned. I doubt a patch to File::HomeDir documentation is going to have an impact. I agree, but there's not much else that can be done. The only other alternative is to convince OS vendors not to use spaces in the paths to user home dirs. Seems backwards to me. Trying to impose limits on the user to kowtow to broken some modules sounds backwards to me. Trying to convince OS vendors to change their practices to address bugs in modules sounds backwards to me.	[reply]
Re^4: Darwin and File::HomeDir by Anonymous Monk on May 21, 2011 at 00:16 UTC
I agree, but there's not much else that can be done. The only other alternative is to convince OS vendors not to use spaces in the paths to user home dirs. But why should spaces in the paths be a problem?	[reply]
Re^5: Darwin and File::HomeDir by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 21, 2011 at 00:34 UTC
Re^6: Darwin and File::HomeDir by Anonymous Monk on May 21, 2011 at 00:38 UTC
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Re^4: Darwin and File::HomeDir by Anonymous Monk on May 21, 2011 at 00:36 UTC
Trying to impose limits on the user to kowtow to broken some modules sounds backwards to me. How is requiring users posses some common knowledge, trying to impose a limit on users? This is the synopsis for http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/File-HomeDir-0.97/lib/File/HomeDir/Darwin/Carbon.pm `use File::HomeDir; # Find directories for the current user $home = File::HomeDir->my_home; # /Users/mylogin $desktop = File::HomeDir->my_desktop; # /Users/mylogin/Desktop $docs = File::HomeDir->my_documents; # /Users/mylogin/Documents $music = File::HomeDir->my_music; # /Users/mylogin/Music $pics = File::HomeDir->my_pictures; # /Users/mylogin/Pictures $videos = File::HomeDir->my_videos; # /Users/mylogin/Movies $data = File::HomeDir->my_data; # /Users/mylogin/Library/App +lication Support` [download] So what are you talking about? Trying to convince OS vendors to change their practices to address bugs in modules sounds backwards to me. What? Who suggested trying to convince OS vendors anything?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Darwin and File::HomeDir by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 21, 2011 at 00:57 UTC
Re^6: Darwin and File::HomeDir by Anonymous Monk on May 21, 2011 at 02:35 UTC
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