On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Chad Davis <chad.a.da...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This may not be a bug, but it might impact current metabase testers,
> so I want to ask here first.
> My smoker just got around to testing the new CPAN-Reporter-1.19_03.
> It's trying to run this:
>
> .../metabase-profile --output
> /home/bq_cdavis/.cpanreporter/~/.cpanreporter/metabase_id.json
>
> despite the existence of ~/.cpanreporter/metabase_id.json
>
> And the reason for that is because this is false:
>
> File::Spec->file_name_is_absolute('~/.cpanreporter/metabase_id.json');
>
> And I'm using that path because that's what the last set of
> documentation that I read on the Testers Wiki seemed / did suggest
> when we made the change to metabase last year. And it has worked until
> now. Of course, it's a simple workaround to update my
> ~/.cpanreporter/config.ini, but what is the impact for existing
> metabase users? Do we:I have not tested it yet but ~ does not seem to be very Windows friendly. File::HomeDir->my_home maybe? regards Gabor
