Re: [Module::Build] PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT

[Randy W. S. <ml...@th...>]

Tyler MacDonald wrote:
> Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sth...@ef...> wrote:
> 
>>The problem that I tried to address is module authors not giving a
>>default and not realizing that this dies when you try to do an
>>unattended install.  I want to force a default so they don't have
>>the option to unknowingly cause some users a problem.
> 
> 
> 	This is a problem with CPAN.pm as well; if you try to do the initial
> setup with PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1, it loops forever on the "Select a mirror"
> prompt. :-/ I've been meaning to discuss this more / submit a patch, but my
> backlog has been insane lately...

We can:

die "ERROR: This build script not safe for unattended installs. Please 
notify @{[$self->dist_author]} that they wrote a bad bad Build.PL. 
Please ask them to provide reasonable defaults or switch to the new 
ask() method."
   if $ENV{PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT}
   && (called_without_default(y_n) || called_without_default(prompt);

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