Re: Unintended consequences

2006-05-27 Thread Adam Kennedy
demerphq wrote: On 5/26/06, Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message > From: Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Andy Lester wrote: > > Here's an example of why I'm not real excited about CPANTS: > > > > http://community.livejournal.com/perl/120747.html > > Ironically, posted

Re: Unintended consequences

2006-05-27 Thread Michael G Schwern
On 5/27/06, Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I tell you what, I'm going to add the same code to all 100+ of my modules. And what if then Audrey and Ovid and Miyagawa and a hundred others did. For an application with 50 dependencies, that's 50 x 20 second pauses, or you get to sit there h

Re: Unintended consequences

2006-05-27 Thread Philippe "BooK" Bruhat
Le samedi 27 mai 2006 à 11:50, Michael G Schwern écrivait: > > If you wanted a way forward from this, a Module::Build::PhoneHome would be > nice with its own environment variable, independent of PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT, > to switch it off. Then people can just use it and it will do the right > thing,

Re: Unintended consequences

2006-05-27 Thread Adam Kennedy
The questions that are being asked are for the user's benefit. That is NOT being a freeloader. Freeloading is taken something from the user and providing nothing in return. If an installer asks a question in order to install the module or run the testing, it is acting for the user's benefit.