expanding the cpan script, and Module

2008-02-11 Thread Andrew Hampe
volks, The Basic CPAN concern: --bail_on_fail flag (2008.02.10 ) Problem description: when a cpan session is looking for more than one distribution/module there needs to be a way to 'flag' that the session must fail and stop if there is an error loading any distribution, or a

Re: expanding the cpan script, and Module

2008-02-11 Thread Michael G Schwern
Andrew Hampe wrote: The Basic CPAN concern: --bail_on_fail flag (2008.02.10 ) Problem description: when a cpan session is looking for more than one distribution/module there needs to be a way to 'flag' that the session must fail and stop if there is an error loading any

Re: expanding the cpan script, and Module

2008-02-11 Thread David Golden
It sounds like what you really want is a new config option. The cpan script is just a pass-through to CPAN::Shell. I suggest posting your request to the CPAN.pm RT queue -- Andreas (and others like me) monitor it and it keeps the backlog of bugs and feature requests in one place. I'm a little

Re: expanding the cpan script, and Module

2008-02-11 Thread Matisse Enzer
On Feb 11, 2008, at 5:01 PM, David Golden wrote: On Feb 11, 2008 6:52 PM, brian d foy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's not really true. Although I use CPAN::Shell for some things, cpan isn't just passing things along. My program is a different interface using the same backend. Right --

Re: expanding the cpan script, and Module

2008-02-11 Thread David Golden
On Feb 11, 2008 6:52 PM, brian d foy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's not really true. Although I use CPAN::Shell for some things, cpan isn't just passing things along. My program is a different interface using the same backend. Right -- you're not handing off all arguments to CPAN::Shell at

Re: expanding the cpan script, and Module

2008-02-11 Thread brian d foy
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Golden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It sounds like what you really want is a new config option. The cpan script is just a pass-through to CPAN::Shell. That's not really true. Although I use CPAN::Shell for some things, cpan isn't just passing things along. My