Package: perl-File-HomeDir (1.002-1.18)

*File::HomeDir* is a module for locating the directories that are "owned" by a user (typicaly your user) and to solve the various issues that arise trying to find them consistently across a wide variety of platforms. The end result is a single API that can find your resources on any platform, making it relatively trivial to create Perl software that works elegantly and correctly no matter where you run it. This module provides two main interfaces. The first is a modern File::Spec-style interface with a consistent OO API and different implementation modules to support various platforms. You are *strongly* recommended to use this interface. The second interface is for legacy support of the original 0.07 interface that exported a 'home()' function by default and tied the '%~' variable. It is generally not recommended that you use this interface, but due to back-compatibility reasons they will remain supported until at least 2010. The '%~' interface has been deprecated. Documentation was removed in 2009, Unit test were removed in 2011, usage will issue warnings from 2012, and the interface will be removed entirely in 2015 (in line with the general Perl toolchain convention of a 10 year support period for legacy APIs that are potentially or actually in common use).