[Philadelphia-pm] Persistent data directory

[Kurt Starsinic]

One perlish way to do this would be to save the data, encoded with
Storable or Data::Dumper, to a file.

- Kurt

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Eric Roode <sdn.phlpm at mailnull.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm writing a new module, and it needs to store some data persistently
> across invocations (basically a cache).  It is irrelevant whether this cache
> is per-user or system-wide.
>
> Is there any sort of reasonably standard place to store such data?  This
> will be run on Windows, for what it's worth, but it'd be good to know what
> locations are standard practice on other platforms, too.  Is there any sort
> of existing module that encapsulates this, so I won't have to think about it
> (like how File::Temp provides for temporary data storage)?  I couldn't find
> any.
>
> Thanks,
> -- Eric
>
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