Wed Dec 08 15:23:32 2010: Request 56971 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by JDB
Queue: Win32
Subject: GetFolderPath.t tests on false assumption
Broken in: 0.39
Severity: Normal
Owner: Nobody
Requestors: [email protected]
Status: new
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56971 >
On Tue Apr 27 09:42:12 2010, BOLDRA wrote:
> The test program ext\Win32\t\GetFolderPath.t assumes that CSIDL_WINDOWS
> is the same as $ENV{WINDIR}, and this is not always the case.
>
> C:\Temp\WinAdm>perl -MWin32 -E "say for
> Win32::GetFolderPath(Win32::CSIDL_WINDOWS), $ENV{WINDIR}"
> C:\Documents and Settings\r3setup.TWDF1820\WINDOWS
> C:\WINDOWS
That is contrary to Microsoft documentation for CSIDL_WINDOWS:
| The Windows directory or SYSROOT. This corresponds to the %windir% or
| %SYSTEMROOT% environment variables. A typical path is C:\Windows.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762494%28VS.85%29.aspx
