Tyler MacDonald wrote:
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The problem that I tried to address is module authors not giving a
default and not realizing that this dies when you try to do an
unattended install. I want to force a default so they don't have
the option to unknowingly cause some users a problem.
This is a problem with CPAN.pm as well; if you try to do the initial
setup with PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1, it loops forever on the "Select a mirror"
prompt. :-/ I've been meaning to discuss this more / submit a patch, but my
backlog has been insane lately...
We can:
die "ERROR: This build script not safe for unattended installs. Please
notify @{[$self->dist_author]} that they wrote a bad bad Build.PL.
Please ask them to provide reasonable defaults or switch to the new
ask() method."
if $ENV{PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT}
&& (called_without_default(y_n) || called_without_default(prompt);
__END__
