On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 04:31:02PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: > On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:09 PM, David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> wrote: > > Interactivity is fine, provided it has sensible defaults. > It's worth knowing about the ExtUtils::MakeMaker::prompt function > which can be used to ask simple interactive questions. In particular > this will allow you to specify a default (e.g. don't connect to the > network) and have this automatically used if STDIN isn't connected to > anything or the PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT env var is set to true.
That also Does The Right Thing with buffering. Under some circumstances, home-brew prompting using print() and <STDIN> doesn't display the prompt until after the user has answered the question and hit enter. Generally when you're doing stuff like tee(1)ing so that you have a log of the install. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information For every vengeance, there is an equal and opposite revengeance. -- Cartoon Law X