On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 10:06:16AM +0000, Slaven Rezic wrote:
> Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> This is hard to do from CPAN.pm/CPANPLUS.pm.
How do you plan on assigning PERL_MM_DEFAULT_DB on a per module basis
from CPAN/CPANPLUS? Or will you build One Grand Default File and One
Grand Makefile.PL Parser?
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