Re: [rant] Of the suckage of the CPAN shell

I think only the crypto signing thing relates to the cpan shell. The rest is up to the Makefile.PL of the packages you're using. And these are completely annoying, especially those using Module::AutoInstall and Module::Build as well. But you obviously haven't tried to test mod_perl without having Apache installed - it will happily ask the same question over and over again...

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Re^2: [rant] Of the suckage of the CPAN shell by jhourcle (Prior) on Jul 10, 2006 at 18:43 UTC
For the stupid Makefile.PL questions -- I think that's what 'inactivity_timeout' is for. Here's what you get when you do an 'o conf init' `Sometimes you may wish to leave the processes run by CPAN alone without caring about them. Because the Makefile.PL sometimes contains question you're expected to answer, you can set a timer that will kill a 'perl Makefile.PL' process after the specified time in seconds. If you set this value to 0, these processes will wait forever. This is the default and recommended setting. Timeout for inactivity during Makefile.PL? [0]` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: [rant] Of the suckage of the CPAN shell by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 10, 2006 at 18:45 UTC
Yes - except that it doesn't work for me on Win32, because it's implemented via `alarm()` last time I looked ;)	[reply] [d/l]