From: Randy Kobes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: new PPM-Make package available Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 00:12:50 -0500 (CDT)
I've uploaded to CPAN a new version (0.66) of PPM-Make, a module to make a ppm package from a CPAN distribution. There's also Win32 ppm packages of this available at http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/, for ActicePerl 8xx, and http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppmpackages/, for ActivePerl 6xx. As well as a few bug fixes, and some minor enhancements (including support for packages using Module-Build), this version has support for installing the built ppm package via the ppm utility. One can also (through a configured CPAN.pm module) specify a package to build/install by a module name, rather than just the CPAN distribution name.
Three helper scripts are included - make_ppm and ppm_install, which are command-line tools for building and installing packages, and tk-ppm, a Tk-based interface for searching and installing packages. This latter one is work-in-progress - in the future, I'd like to add more integration with CPAN, so that one could search for a package and, if it's not in a repository, go off to CPAN and, if it's there, fetch and build it. I'd also like to get rid of the CPAN.pm dependency as a front end to the CPAN indices, and instead, use SOAP-Lite to forward such queries to the database we use for a CPAN search utility.
Please let me know if you find bugs and/or have any suggestions for improvements. Thanks.
-- best regards, randy kobes _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
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