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Id: 35566
Status: rejected
Priority: 0/
Queue: CPAN-Mini
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Requestors: adamk [...] cpan.org
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  Thu May 01 12:16:31 2008 adamk [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: ~/.minicpanrc is useless on Win32
Most people on Windows don't have an easy way to get to their home directory. Windows doesn't recognise "dot" to mean "hidden". Most people on Windows have no idea what the point of an "rc" file is. There is no possible way to associate an editor to a file without an extension. All of these things make ~/.minicpanrc a silly place to put a hand-edited config file (on Windows). In fact, why are we hand-editing at all? Why not just have a -s flag that "saves" the minicpan configuration for the current invocation to a file that ISN'T expected to be typically edited. That also means you won't need to do the missing documentation for the .minicpanrc file format. :)
  Thu May 01 13:12:54 2008 rjbs [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
CC: undisclosed-recipients: ;
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #35566] ~/.minicpanrc is useless on Win32
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 13:12:40 -0400
To: Adam Kennedy via RT <bug-CPAN-Mini [...] rt.cpan.org>
From: Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs [...] cpan.org>
* Adam Kennedy via RT <bug-CPAN-Mini@rt.cpan.org> [2008-05-01T12:16:32] Show quoted text
> Most people on Windows don't have an easy way to get to their home > directory.
I think this is not true. The rest of your comments are reasonable. I will attempt something to correct this in the short term, but not this week. -- rjbs
  Thu May 01 13:12:56 2008 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Fri May 02 02:10:44 2008 adamkennedybackup [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #35566] ~/.minicpanrc is useless on Win32
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 16:04:59 +1000
To: bug-CPAN-Mini [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Adam Kennedy <adamkennedybackup [...] gmail.com>
This is a wishlist item, if it was fixed by YAPC::NA so I can roll official minicpan support into the next Strawberry release, I'd be happy. Adam K Ricardo SIGNES via RT wrote: Show quoted text
> <URL: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35566 > > > * Adam Kennedy via RT <bug-CPAN-Mini@rt.cpan.org> [2008-05-01T12:16:32] >
>> Most people on Windows don't have an easy way to get to their home >> directory. >>
> > I think this is not true. The rest of your comments are reasonable. > > I will attempt something to correct this in the short term, but not this week. > >
  Sat Apr 13 08:52:59 2013 rjbs [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
The only part of this still likely to be done is zero configuration by default (and maybe --save) which are in different tickets. I'm closing this specific ticket. -- rjbs
  Sat Apr 13 08:52:59 2013 rjbs [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'