Re: [Module::Build] PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 03:57:07PM -0400, Randy W. Sims wrote:
> Tyler MacDonald wrote:
> >Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >>The problem that I tried to address is module authors not giving a
> >>default and not realizing that this dies when you try to do an
> >>unattended install.  I want to force a default so they don't have
> >>the option to unknowingly cause some users a problem.
> >
> >
> >	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);
> 
> __END__

That sounds like as good as it's going to get.