[Padre-dev] Portable Strawberry perl with Padre 0.25, Parrot and Rakudo

[Gabor Szabo]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Steffen Mueller <smueller at cpan.org> wrote:
> Hi Gabor, hi all,
>
> Gabor Szabo wrote:
>> I am happy to let you know that after a long time of uploading finally
>> the Portable Strawberry perl (beta 1) with Padre 0.25 is available for download.
>
> Quoting the build instructions for developers:
>
>
> ".padre is currently in C:\ shall we set the PADRE_HOME to a directory
> in the portable distribution? (if so we can configure the plug-ins and
> ship them but we have to make sure the configuration files don't include
> personal history.."
>
>
> Shouldn't .padre go into the user's application configuration or home
> directory instead on a normal install? For a portable one, it should
> maybe go into the Portable tree, but c:\ is most certainly the worst
> place for it: not portable, not per-user, and not in the system-specific
> "correct" place for configuration files.
>
> Yeah, I know, complaining is cheap and simple. Sorry, but I'm the wrong
> guy for fixing win32 issues. :(


I think this is an issue with the Portable Strawberry Perl beta 1.
I have just checked it again:

File::HomeDir->my_home points to C:
File::HomeDir->my_data   is undef

while they should probably point to some directory in the portable tree
and then Padre would juts use the value returned by my_data.

Because of the bug I need the workaround to set PADRE_HOME

Gabor