Re: [Module::Build] PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT

[Tyler M. <ty...@yi...>]

Randy W. Sims <ml...@th...> wrote:
> >	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);

	Sure. What I really want though, is for CPAN.pm to be totally
automatable. If you want a good chuckle, check out the attached
hackety-hackety-hack I whipped together one afternoon to do an autobuild;
the scary thing is it actually works. <g>

	- Tyler