NAME

       Config::Find::WinAny - Behaviours common to any Win32 OS for Config::Find

SYNOPSIS

         # don't use Config::Find::WinAny;
         use Config::Find;

ABSTRACT

       Implements features common to all the Win32 OS's

DESCRIPTION

       This module implements Config::Find for Win32 OS's.

       WARNING!!! Configuration file placement has changed on version 0.15 to be more Windows
       friendly (see note below).

       Order for config files searching is... (see note at the end for entries marked as 1b and
       2b)

         1  ${LOCAL_APPDATA}/$name.cfg                [user]
        (1b /$path_to_script/Users/$user/$name.cfg    [user])
         2  /$path_to_script/$name.cfg                [global]

       unless when $ENV{${name}_HOME} is defined. That changes the search paths to...

        (1b $ENV{${name}_HOME}/Users/$user/$name.cfg  [user])
         2  $ENV{${name}_HOME}/$name.cfg              [global]

       When the "several configuration files in one directory" aproach is used, the order is
       something different...

         1  ${LOCAL_APPDATA}/$dir/$name.cfg              [user]
        (1b /$path_to_script/Users/$user/$dir/$name.cfg  [user])
         2  /$path_to_script/$name.cfg                   [global]
        (2b /$path_to_script/$dir/$name.dfg              [global])

       (it is also affected by $ENV{${name}_HOME} variable)

       Note: entries marked as 1b were the default behaviour for versions of Config::Find until
       0.14. New behaviour is to put user application configuration data under ${LOCAL_APPDATA}
       as returned by "Win32::GetFolderPath(CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA)" (if this call fails, the old
       approach is used).  Also, global configuration files were stored under a new directory
       placed in the same dir as the script but this is unnecesary because windows apps already
       go in their own directory.

       It seems that, sometimes, ${LOCAL_APPDATA} points to the user desktop and placing
       configuration files there would be obviusly wrong. As a work around, the module will
       ignore ${LOCAL_APPDATA} or ${APPDATA} if they point to any place below the desktop path.

   EXPORT
       None by default.

SEE ALSO

       Config::Find, Config::Find::Any

AUTHOR

       Salvador Fandin~o, <sfandino@yahoo.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright 2003 by Salvador Fandin~o

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.