On 02 December 1999, Fred L. Drake, Jr. said:
Michael Hudson writes:
Further mucking about shows that [Lots of examples of busted behavior elided...]
I tihnk this really shows that many of these things really need to be global options and that the local options thing makes very little sense.
I beg to differ -- I'll have to take a closer look at what's going on with Michael's examples of brokenness, but I like to think they can be fixed without completely tossing the existing design. See "perldoc ExtUtils::MakeMaker" for my rationale behind having most behaviour controlled by command options. 22 pages of documentation describing all of MakeMaker's options (which are all global) is a bit overwhelming; I wanted to be able to categorize things a bit. [Michael again]
Would it be reasonable to have an "interactive" mode, or am I just being silly again?
Interesting notion. Would this just be a shell for the Distutils commands, eg. ./setup.py --interactive
build [...output of 'build' command...] install [...output of 'install' command...] quit
or did you have something else in mind? Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer gward@cnri.reston.va.us Corporation for National Research Initiatives 1895 Preston White Drive voice: +1-703-620-8990 Reston, Virginia, USA 20191-5434 fax: +1-703-620-0913