Bug #30449 for CPAN: Add is_interactive flag to distroprefs

Sat Nov 03 16:03:06 2007 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

Add is_interactive flag to distroprefs

It would be nice to have an is_interactive flag for the three distroprefs phases pl, make, and test. I don't expect an implementation for this flag (yet). But there could be need for such a flag, for example, to let automated installers skip building a distribution flagged like this, and let human installers do the job later. (Note that not everything can be handled by Expect, like GUI tests. Which leads to a new idea: add support for X11::GUITest and Win32::GuiTest :-)

Sun Nov 04 18:13:14 2007 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

A field in a spec that does not define what it is doing? A field for private use that we promise we will never use? Looks like you want a private field so that you can use the distroprefs files in other context? If so, we need a field where other users of distroprefs files can put their act together, right? Please elaborate if I misunderstand you.

Sun Nov 04 18:13:15 2007 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Mon Nov 05 18:02:22 2007 slaven [...] rezic.de - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #30449] Add is_interactive flag to distroprefs
Date:	06 Nov 2007 00:00:34 +0100
To:	bug-CPAN [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Slaven Rezic <slaven [...] rezic.de>

"Andreas Koenig via RT" <bug-CPAN@rt.cpan.org> writes: Show quoted text

> <URL: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30449 > > > A field in a spec that does not define what it is doing? A field for > private use that we promise we will never use? Looks like you want a > private field so that you can use the distroprefs files in other context? > > If so, we need a field where other users of distroprefs files can put > their act together, right? > > Please elaborate if I misunderstand you. >

I thought of an "official" field which might be used by CPAN.pm in a future version. A small sketch: distropref defines: match: distribution: Foo is_interactive: 1 CPAN.pm configuration specifies: o conf skip_interactive 1 Which means that the distribution Foo won't be build with this setting. The user could decide to change the flag later to install the distributions which are interactive. But it would also be quite OK to have a general-purpose field for user-defined data (and a "=" in the Kwalify schema to accept all keys). Then just document how a user could use just the distroprefs matching in CPAN.pm for his own scripts and the wishlist item could go into a separate module or script. -- Slaven Rezic - slaven <at> rezic <dot> de tkrevdiff - graphical display of diffs between revisions (RCS, CVS or SVN) http://ptktools.sourceforge.net/#tkrevdiff

Sat Apr 05 15:15:32 2008 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

I think this can be implemented in terms of the "env" match (see #34104). So no need for actions left. Regards, Slaven

Sat Apr 05 15:15:41 2008 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'