On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:08:34PM +0000, Slaven Rezic wrote:
> Here's a proposal for better default value handling in Makefile.PL's.
> It's basically an extension to the existing prompt() function. If
> $ENV{PERL_MM_DEFAULT_DB} is defined, then it is used as a file
> location for an AnyDBM_File. User input to prompt() will be stored
> into this database and used next time as the default value. Furthermore,
> if prompt() is called with a third parameter, then it is used for
> parsing the command line for this argument. In this case, the user will
> not be queried, but the specified value will go into the database
> (this is debatable).What does that do that: cat response_file | perl Makefile.PL doesn't? Or a little expect-type script? Makefile.PL should read from STDIN just fine. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ If at first you don't succeed, call in an air strike.
