File::HomeDir strange behavior Perl 5.28

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Re: File::HomeDir strange behavior Perl 5.28 by haj (Vicar) on Nov 01, 2018 at 10:05 UTC
I can't confirm that behaviour with my own installation of Strawberry Perl 5.28 which returns `C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local` as expected. But your result has been the behaviour of the Portable edition with both Perl 5.24 and Perl 5.28 - so maybe you unfortunately caught a portable one to `c:\Strawberry`? The file `README.txt` in that directory could provide more information.	[reply]
Re^2: File::HomeDir strange behavior Perl 5.28 by IB2017 (Pilgrim) on Nov 01, 2018 at 11:54 UTC
Thank you. Yes, I checked and my 5.28 is a portable edition (berrybrew ).	[reply]
Re^2: File::HomeDir strange behavior Perl 5.28 by Anonymous Monk on Nov 02, 2018 at 09:15 UTC
Does this mean that berrybrew is a bat choice as it uses the portable versions?	[reply]
Re^3: File::HomeDir strange behavior Perl 5.28 by soonix (Chancellor) on Nov 02, 2018 at 10:59 UTC
When trying with Strawberry (portable), `perl -MFile::HomeDir -e "print $File::HomeDir::IMPLEMENTED_BY;"` [download] gives me `Portable::HomeDir` If I remove/rename said module (`...\perl\vendor\lib\Portable\HomeDir.pm`), I get the expected `File::HomeDir::Windows`. It might make sense for berrybrew to do this locally. (Update: crossposted to https://github.com/stevieb9/berrybrew/issues/121)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: File::HomeDir strange behavior Perl 5.28 by stevieb (Canon) on Nov 02, 2018 at 13:34 UTC
Re^5: File::HomeDir strange behavior Perl 5.28 by soonix (Chancellor) on Nov 02, 2018 at 20:28 UTC
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Re^4: File::HomeDir strange behavior Perl 5.28 by Anonymous Monk on Nov 02, 2018 at 11:24 UTC
Re^5: File::HomeDir strange behavior Perl 5.28 by soonix (Chancellor) on Nov 02, 2018 at 12:02 UTC
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Re: File::HomeDir strange behavior Perl 5.28 by stevieb (Canon) on May 30, 2019 at 19:12 UTC
A new berrybrew feature, to allow user to use either the Portable or Windows version of File::HomeDir has been implemented in the 1.24 branch, and will become available for production use after its release (a couple weeks from now). Currently, it's a global config file bool directive (`"windows_homedir" : "false"`), and the default is to use the portable version. Setting that directive to "true" will essentially revert back to the Windows functionality. `berrybrew install $version` will pick up on the directive on each run. If the var is toggled between Perl instance installs, each perl will act accordingly. It's a non-reversible action, so to get the default functionality restored, `berrybrew remove` that instance, change the config directive, and `berrybrew install` it again. I don't really like the idea of having a separate command flag just for this, so I may add in the ability to send an env var as the flag, but I'm not certain yet.	[reply] [d/l] [select]