I have a general question concerning module availability for ActiveState Perl. I asked on this list several month ago where to get the DateTime suite modules, and somebody pointed me to a certain repository at the University of Winnipeg. Now I am in need of HTTP::Cookies and instead being pinpointed to a certain place I would like to know is there a general routine for finding modules listed on CPAN but not available through ppm? Or is it that the win32 perl community does not have a centralized network like cpan and it is pretty much up to the good will of someone to compile a certain module and and serve it from a local server?
There are a couple of 3rd party repositories for PPM packages that you should add to your PPM configuration. See the ppm docs for how to add them. The uwinnepeg.ca one is Randy Kobes'. The other is Dave Roth's at http://www.roth.net/perl/packages/
Also, if a CPAN module (like HTTP::Cookies) is pure perl, you can use CPAN.pm to install it without too much trouble. You need to find nmake somwhere, since that's what ActiveState uses. See perldoc perlmodinstall for details.
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