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• Strongly, strongly disagree (Score:1)

  by ChrisDolan (2855)

  You're way off base on this one.

  I've been using Mac for Perl dev for about 6-7 years (whenever OS X 10.1 came out) and consider it first class. The Mac:: packages are largely irrelevant -- Carbon is a legacy API from the 90s, about as relevant today as a Win95-specific API would be I suppose. If you used a Win95:: library, you'd get similar complaints from users of a modern Windows OS.

  The "flood" of Win32:: packages is because you need those platform-specific hacks to get anything done on Windows Perl. N
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Alias (5735)

    I see this most because of File::HomeDir.

    So tell me this, without using any Mac:: modules, where is your documents directory?
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by nothingmuch (5848)

      ~/Documents
      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Alias (5735)

        Let me rephrase, where is everybody's documents directory?
        • Re:Strongly, strongly disagree (Score:1)

          by Alias (5735) on 2009.09.30 0:55 (#70703) Homepage Journal

          In Cocoa, the correct answer according to Stack Overflow is:

          NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSLibraryDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);

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          • Re: (Score:1)

            by ChrisDolan (2855)

            No, not NSLibraryDirectory. It's NSDocumentDirectory. From XCode docs:

            NSSearchPathDirectory
            These constants specify the location of a variety of directories.
             
            typedef enum {
               NSApplicationDirectory = 1,
               NSDemoApplicationDirectory,
               NSDeveloperApplicationDirectory,
               NSAdminApplicationDirectory,
               NSLibraryDirectory,
               NSDeveloperDirectory,
               NSUserDirectory,
               NSDocumentationDirectory,
               NSDocumentDirectory