On 3/9/07, Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If Module::Build is about making perl programs easier to install in more
places, I don't think having Build.PL behave with the manners of
find/grep/rm is the way to achieve that.  Weigh the effort of trying to
walk somebody through a Build.PL via irc/whatever (e.g. author: "Send
me the output of perl Build.PL > log.txt",  user: "That just sits and
stares at me", author: "ah, right.  bah.  I meant perl Build.PL >
log.txt < /dev/null") vs having to (gasp!) set a variable when building
a batch job.

Hooray!  A use case!  And a good one too.

Of course, for most Build.PL that do not prompt, it won't matter, and
that's most of the cases.  And I'm not convinced that we should
introduce lots of magic behavior to protect naive users from
irresponsible authors.

Can the use case be addressed with:

   perl Build.PL --logfile=log.txt

Or:

 perl Build.PL --defaults > log.txt

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