From: Peter Rabbitson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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?
ActiveStates do have an automated process downloading and compiling CPAN modules, but of course they can't have everything and they don't have the manpower to handle all problems for all modules that do not build out of the box. So the rest depends on the goodwill of various developers and their own repositories. Much smaller than the ActiveState one, but filling in the gaps. There is a module PPM::Repositories on CPAN and the ActiveState repository that contains the addresses of the "known" repositories and allows you to add them to the list kept by PPM. Fetch it, install it, read the docs, add the repositories :-) Jenda ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
