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in thread Installing a config file during module operation

I did cast a look at that module, but since it uses the return value of Win32::GetFolderPath(CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA) to find a good place to store the config files and Win32::GetFolderPath(CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA) on my Windows XP Professional points to C:\Documents and Settings\kjm\Desktop, all the config files would be put on my desktop!

Obviously that is not a good solution. Perhaps there is something wrong in my setup, but if the module relies on something which can be so easily broken, I rather pass.

Update: I checked the module once more and the latest version (0.18 or 0.21) does import the constant, so it seems OK.

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Re^4: Installing a config file during module operation
by Tanktalus (Canon) on Aug 08, 2005 at 04:23 UTC

    I'm getting the same idea on the windows machine here, too - wierd. According to the CSIDL documentation on MS's site, CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA has "[a] typical path [of] C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data." [emphasis in original] But here, that returns the desktop, just like yours. Wierd. Perhaps that's a bug in Win32?

    Update: No, no bug in Win32 - nor even Windows. PEBKAC. As xdg points out, failing to import the constant was the problem. That said, it was quite well hidden at the end of a longish paragraph. I suppose I could make a suggestion to the author: bold this in the perldoc :-) - but that's merely a suggestion, not a bug report ;-)

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      hey, bug reports are welcome!!!

      Where do you thing the configuration files should go? what version of windows are you using?

      update: btw, on my windows xp it points to 

        C:\Documents and Settings\salva\Local Settings\Application Data\

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      anyway, I have uploaded a new version to CPAN with a work around that will ignore LOCAL_APPDATA or APPDATA when they point to any place below the user desktop.

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        I suspect people aren't reading docs for Win32. You have to import the constant. (I'll admit I didn't do that at first, either.) 

        > perl -MWin32 -le "print Win32::GetFolderPath(CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA)"
C:\Documents and Settings\DGolden\Desktop
> perl -MWin32=CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA -le "print Win32::GetFolderPath(CSI
+DL_LOCAL_APPDATA)"
C:\Documents and Settings\DGolden\Local Settings\Application Data

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        -xdg

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