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Id: 46869
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Requestors: adamk [...] cpan.org
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  Thu Jun 11 22:07:08 2009 adamk [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: "ReadLine support is available" is meaningless for most people
The strawberry perl installer current puts a "CPAN Client" entry in the start menu which pops up a command line window directly into the CPAN client. In addition to the normal header message "This is CPAN blah blah blah" it also says "ReadLine support available". For someone encountering CPAN for the first time, this is a weird distraction. It communicates information about something they don't necessarily care about. I'd like to see this message removed. Instead, it would be nice to have a "Enter 'h' for help" instead.
  Thu Jun 11 22:42:44 2009 dagolden [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #46869] "ReadLine support is available" is meaningless for most people
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:42:23 -0400
To: bug-CPAN [...] rt.cpan.org
From: David Golden <dagolden [...] cpan.org>
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Adam Kennedy via RT<bug-CPAN@rt.cpan.org> wrote: Show quoted text
> For someone encountering CPAN for the first time, this is a weird > distraction. It communicates information about something they don't > necessarily care about. > > I'd like to see this message removed. Instead, it would be nice to have > a "Enter 'h' for help" instead.
Makes sense to me. Overall, I'd like to see CPAN.pm be a lot quieter by default. Andreas, what do you think? -- David
  Thu Jun 11 22:42:45 2009 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Thu Jun 11 23:00:08 2009 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
I agree. For the proper wording of this particular ReadLine hint there is even already a ticket in the queue with suggestions that were quite convincing. For the overall verbosity my intention was we'd solve this with multiple xxx_verbosity options.
  Fri Jun 12 10:23:26 2009 dagolden [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Changed in my github master branch. Andreas, please pull.
  Fri Jun 12 10:23:28 2009 dagolden [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'