| Subject: | CPAN.pm writing to .cpan directory in ~/Library/Application Support |
Reconfiguring CPAN 1.9101 upgrading from 1.8801 I noticed this:
commit: wrote '/Users/schwern/Library/Application
Support/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm'
Its great that its writing to ~/Library/Application Support/ on OS X.
However it probably shouldn't be using a dot directory there. There's
no need to hide the directory with a dot, it should be visible. The
name of the application is the appropriate idiom. Probably something
like "CPAN.pm".
I'm not sure how you can figure out when this should be done. That is,
on Unix if you're writing into ~ you want to hide application
directories and use .cpan. On Windows and OS X or other system which
have a specific app config directory you probably want to make the
directory visible. This logic should probably go into File::HomeDir.
Possibly by supplying it with a directory name and it deciding if it
should be hidden or not.
This is very, very minor. Just something I happened to notice.