Re: expanding the cpan script, and Module

2008-02-11 Thread David Golden
On Feb 11, 2008 9:05 PM, Matisse Enzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Right -- you're not handing off all arguments to CPAN::Shell at once. > > However, I think he wanted CPAN.pm to halt if any *dependencies* > > failed as well as anything specified to the "cpan" script -- that > > requires a chang

Re: expanding the cpan script, and Module

2008-02-11 Thread Andrew Hampe
On Feb 11, 2008, at 1:20 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote: I believe you want to send this along to the CPAN bug tracker. perl- qa is for quality assurance (testing) issues. http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=CPAN But it's trivial to do yourself. use CPAN; for my $name (@A

Re: expanding the cpan script, and Module

2008-02-11 Thread Matisse Enzer
On Feb 11, 2008, at 5:01 PM, David Golden wrote: On Feb 11, 2008 6:52 PM, brian d foy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's not really true. Although I use CPAN::Shell for some things, cpan isn't just passing things along. My program is a different interface using the same backend. Right -- you'

Re: expanding the cpan script, and Module

2008-02-11 Thread David Golden
On Feb 11, 2008 6:52 PM, brian d foy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's not really true. Although I use CPAN::Shell for some things, > cpan isn't just passing things along. My program is a different > interface using the same backend. Right -- you're not handing off all arguments to CPAN::Shell a

Re: expanding the cpan script, and Module

2008-02-11 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It sounds like what you really want is a new config option. The > "cpan" script is just a pass-through to CPAN::Shell. That's not really true. Although I use CPAN::Shell for some things, cpan isn't just passing things alon

Re: expanding the cpan script, and Module

2008-02-11 Thread brian d foy
[[ This message was both posted and mailed: see the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Hampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Desrired Behavior: > running a cpan session, with the flag set, will cause the session to > note the error and >

Re: expanding the cpan script, and Module

2008-02-11 Thread Michael G Schwern
Andrew Hampe wrote: The Basic CPAN concern: --bail_on_fail flag (2008.02.10 ) Problem description: when a cpan session is looking for more than one distribution/module there needs to be a way to 'flag' that the session must fail and stop if there is an error loading any distribution,

Re: expanding the cpan script, and Module

2008-02-11 Thread David Cantrell
Andrew Hampe wrote: The Basic CPAN concern: --bail_on_fail flag (2008.02.10 ) Problem description: when a cpan session is looking for more than one distribution/module there needs to be a way to 'flag' that the session must fail and stop if there is an error loading any distribution

Re: expanding the cpan script, and Module

2008-02-11 Thread David Golden
It sounds like what you really want is a new config option. The "cpan" script is just a pass-through to CPAN::Shell. I suggest posting your request to the CPAN.pm RT queue -- Andreas (and others like me) monitor it and it keeps the backlog of bugs and feature requests in one place. I'm a little

expanding the cpan script, and Module

2008-02-11 Thread Andrew Hampe
volks, The Basic CPAN concern: --bail_on_fail flag (2008.02.10 ) Problem description: when a cpan session is looking for more than one distribution/module there needs to be a way to 'flag' that the session must fail and stop if there is an error loading any distribution, or a s