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in thread Darwin and File::HomeDir

How is requiring users posses some common knowledge, trying to impose a limit on users?

What are you talking about? The user shouldn't have to even know that File::HomeDir is being used by one of his scripts, much less possess some "common knowledge" about it.

Preventing the module from working on systems with spaces is imposing limits on the user.

Requiring the user to create an alternative home directory is imposing limits on the user.

So what are you talking about?

What can be done about the modules that don't handle the space being returned by my_data.

Who suggested trying to convince OS vendors anything?

Me. Or rather, I was suggesting that it would be silly do to so. It's the only way I see that File::HomeDir could return something without spaces.

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Re^6: Darwin and File::HomeDir
by Anonymous Monk on May 21, 2011 at 02:35 UTC
    What are you talking about? The user shouldn't have to even know that File::HomeDir is being used by one of his scripts, much less possess some "common knowledge" about it.

    If you think that, then why you suggest a patch for File::HomeDir documentation?

    The user being discussed in this thread is the code writer who writes 

    use File::HomeDir;

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    and then his code breaks because File::HomeDir returns a path with spaces in it.

    File::HomeDir is working as designed. There is no bug in File::HomeDir.

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      The user being discussed in this thread is the code writer who writes

      Actually, no. I'm the only one who used the term, and I was referring to the user the of the script.

      If you think that, then why you suggest a patch for File::HomeDir documentation?

      To try to avoid the creation of buggy modules.

      File::HomeDir is working as designed. There is no bug in File::HomeDir.

      That's what I said.I agree, I never said there was.

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        If you believe that, then what was all that stuff about imposing limits on users? You're switching your argument midstream, just to keep the thread going.

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