Re^5: File::HomeDir strange behavior Perl 5.28

I think I'd prefer berrybrew removing the Portable::HomeDir by default. However, CPAN and cpanm both use File::HomeDir->my_home, which means it would be difficult to have different configs for different versions. This probably would only be a minor gotcha, but I see the impact would be greater than what I thought when I wrote this. A config directive is definitely a good idea.

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Re^6: File::HomeDir strange behavior Perl 5.28 by stevieb (Canon) on Nov 02, 2018 at 20:53 UTC
This is exactly why I wanted to hash this out in a public forum, to get as much feedback, criticism and "ohhh, I forgot about that angle!" comments that I can before I make a change. I don't like it when I'm too quick to implement something that I'll be kicking myself in the ass for in three months. Very good feedback so far here, I appreciate it all.	[reply]
Re^7: File::HomeDir strange behavior Perl 5.28 by IB2017 (Pilgrim) on Nov 05, 2018 at 09:41 UTC
I am not an expert user at all, but this is my experience so far removing `(...\perl\vendor\lib\Portable\HomeDir.pm). In order to have <code>File::HomeDir->my_data` giving me back the real Windows thing, my Perl installation has the following problem: installing new modules fires error: a new folder `strawberry` is created under C: where cpan or cpanm try to install the modules, failing. To get modules installed I have to recreate the original `(...\perl\vendor\lib\Portable\HomeDir.pm)`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^8: File::HomeDir strange behavior Perl 5.28 by stevieb (Canon) on Nov 05, 2018 at 14:15 UTC
That's a pretty major setback that is, thanks for pointing it out. I haven't quite gotten to test this out for myself yet. I've been merging PRs and updating/correcting some other unrelated things for the impending inclusion of `berrybrew` into hurricup's Camelcade Perl5 Plugin for intelliJ IDEA IDE (which I use for almost all of my Perl development nowadays). Should be able to focus on the File::HomeDir situation sometime this week.	[reply] [d/l]