Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
> > > > $ENV{PERL_MM_DEFAULT_DB} is defined, then it is used as a file
> > > > location for an AnyDBM_File. User input to prompt() will be stored
> > > > into this database and used next time as the default value. Furthermore,
> > > > if prompt() is called with a third parameter, then it is used for
> > > > parsing the command line for this argument. In this case, the user will
> > > > not be queried, but the specified value will go into the database
> > > > (this is debatable).
> > >
> > > What does that do that:
> > >
> > > cat response_file | perl Makefile.PL
> > >
> > > doesn't? Or a little expect-type script?
> > >
> > > Makefile.PL should read from STDIN just fine.
> >
> > This is hard to do from CPAN.pm/CPANPLUS.pm.
>
> How do you plan on assigning PERL_MM_DEFAULT_DB on a per module basis
> from CPAN/CPANPLUS? Or will you build One Grand Default File and One
> Grand Makefile.PL Parser?
>
PERL_MM_DEFAULT_DB is global for all modules. The key of the dbm file
could be "$extension_name $prompt_text". An additional Makefile.PL
parser is not necessary, just the change to prompt() [and telling the
module authors to use prompt() everywhere interactive configuration
is necessary].
Regards,
Slaven
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