At 03:00 PM 8/3/00 -0700, Jeremy Wadsack wrote:
>Peter Scott wrote:
>
> > At 12:41 PM 8/3/00 -0700, Jeremy Wadsack wrote:
> > >Under "How do I install Perl modules", I believe PPM is not available for
> > >Solaris and Linux/x86. Can someone verify this?
> >
> > It is part of ActivePerl, which is available for those platforms. Since it
> > is a Perl script, conceivably it could work anywhere, but it may depend on
> > the structure of the ActivePerl installation; I wasn't able to tell with a
> > cursory inspection.
>
>However, it returns binary distributions (not source, like CPAN.pm). I don't
>know how large the binary distribtions are (if they even exists) for Solaris
>and Linux x86.
http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/index.html says PPM is
available for all platforms (I used it on one Linux platform where the
libraries were screwed);
http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/Download.html says that
ActivePerl is ~9MB on all platforms.
ppm contains POD, which says among other things:
ppm uses files containing an extended form of the Open
Software Description (OSD) specification for information
about software packages. These description files, which
are written in Extensible Markup Language (XML) code, are
referred to as 'PPD' files. Information about OSD can be
found at the W3C web site (at the time of this writing,
http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-OSD.html). The extensions to
OSD used by ppm are documented in PPM.ppd.
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
