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.


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