* David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-10-20 10:30]: > Jess Robinson wrote: > >Right, I'd seen a few modules do this, but.. Is there a > >*standard* way of doing it? Those Makefile.PLs tend to look > >cluttered and confusing IMO.. a nice: > > > >use Test::Auth; > >get_user_fields("user", "password"); > > > >would be preferable.. (hmmm, could write something that does > >that, using IO::Prompt.. anyone interested?) > > If there's a standard way of doing it, it would be really nice > that it understood when it was being run in a smoke > environment, and asked no questions and used built-in defaults.
That’s exactly what EU::MM’s prompt() function and Module::Build’s prompt() method do/are for. Regards, -- #Aristotle *AUTOLOAD=*_=sub{s/(.*)::(.*)/print$2,(",$\/"," ")[defined wantarray]/e;$1}; &Just->another->Perl->hacker;