On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Zefram<zef...@fysh.org> wrote:
> Curtis Jewell wrote:
>>I have an option 3 that might be usable: Make it test for
>>$ENV{PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT} in addition to $ENV{AUTOMATED_TESTING}.
>
> CPAN.pm doesn't currently set that variable. Are you proposing that it
> should? Always or dependent on a configuration option? Just for T:RL:P?
> This sounds like a variant on my option 1, workaround in the toolchain.
I had the same thought Curtis had'. PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT is a
"standard" signal that a user doesn't want to be prompted. It would
let Ilya keep tests by default, but allow users to opt-out.
No, CPAN.pm doesn't currently set it, but it's been on my list of
"nice to have" features to add, along with the equivalent for
auto-install.
I could imagine (yet another) CPAN config option to use defaults for
prompts or possibly a pragma for the shell, working like this:
cpan> noprompt install Bundle::CPAN
And regardless, there's always;
$ PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e shell
Other ideas? If not, could someone please go open a ticket with this
wishlist item on the Term::ReadLine::Perl RT (ideally with a patch)
and we can weigh in with our support.
-- David
