Re: Expected Config File Locations

2011-09-02 Thread Paul
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 01:55:48PM +0100, Smylers wrote: Hi. I'm looking for some advice on where I should put the config file for a command I'm distributing on Cpan. Where would you it to be? I'm interested in opinions of Windows, Mac, and Unix users, for both per-user and system-wide config.

Re: Expected Config File Locations

2011-08-31 Thread Smylers
David Cantrell writes: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 01:55:48PM +0100, Smylers wrote: ... advice on where I should put the config file for a command ... On Mac and other Unix-a-likes, .${command}rc or .$command for per-user config, and /etc/$command or /etc/${command}rc for system-wide config.

Expected Config File Locations

2011-08-30 Thread Smylers
Hi. I'm looking for some advice on where I should put the config file for a command I'm distributing on Cpan. Where would you it to be? I'm interested in opinions of Windows, Mac, and Unix users, for both per-user and system-wide config. Or has anybody here dealt with this in Perl, for a command

Re: Expected Config File Locations

2011-08-30 Thread Philip Newton
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 14:55, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: In particular, on Windows: * system_cfg_dir returns the value of %windir%. Is %windir%\bang* a  sensible place for the config of a command called bang? * user_cfg_dir returns the user's home directory. Is that a sensible  

Re: Expected Config File Locations

2011-08-30 Thread David Precious
On Tuesday 30 August 2011 13:55:48 Smylers wrote: Hi. I'm looking for some advice on where I should put the config file for a command I'm distributing on Cpan. Where would you it to be? I'm interested in opinions of Windows, Mac, and Unix users, for both per-user and system-wide config. snip

Re: Expected Config File Locations

2011-08-30 Thread Abigail
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 01:55:48PM +0100, Smylers wrote: Hi. I'm looking for some advice on where I should put the config file for a command I'm distributing on Cpan. Where would you it to be? I'm interested in opinions of Windows, Mac, and Unix users, for both per-user and system-wide config.

Re: Expected Config File Locations

2011-08-30 Thread Smylers
Philip Newton writes: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 14:55, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote:  I see that psql uses %APPDATA%\postgesql\psqlrc.conf for per-user  config I think that on Windows, the application data directory hierarchy is the right place for programs to store their own

Re: Expected Config File Locations

2011-08-30 Thread Smylers
David Precious writes: On Tuesday 30 August 2011 13:55:48 Smylers wrote: Hi. I'm looking for some advice on where I should put the config file for a command I'm distributing on Cpan. Config::Find looks like it is designed for exactly what you're looking for - have you seen that? Hi

Re: Expected Config File Locations

2011-08-30 Thread Smylers
Abigail writes: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 01:55:48PM +0100, Smylers wrote: Hi. I'm looking for some advice on where I should ... ask users to ... put the config file for a command I'm distributing on Cpan. Where would you ... expect ... it to be? I'm interested in opinions of

Re: Expected Config File Locations

2011-08-30 Thread Peter Edwards
On 30 August 2011 16:25, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: On Windows, it uses %LOCAL_APPDATA%\bang.cfg (where %LOCAL_APPDATA% is gleaned from a system %call). How does that seem to Windows users? However it doesn't seem to support recent Windows versions, crashing on. Windows 7 and even

Re: Expected Config File Locations

2011-08-30 Thread Abigail
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 04:44:10PM +0100, Smylers wrote: Abigail writes: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 01:55:48PM +0100, Smylers wrote: Hi. I'm looking for some advice on where I should ... ask users to ... put the config file for a command I'm distributing on Cpan. Where would you

Re: Expected Config File Locations

2011-08-30 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 01:55:48PM +0100, Smylers wrote: Hi. I'm looking for some advice on where I should put the config file for a command I'm distributing on Cpan. Where would you it to be? I'm interested in opinions of Windows, Mac, and Unix users, for both per-user and system-wide