On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Philip Newton wrote:
> Barbie wrote:
> > The good thing about PPM is that it does all the installation
> > for you. the bad thing is that it doesn't run any tests. Then
> > again seeing as they've done the job of porting the package
> > you'd hope it was tested at their end. At least that's what
> > _I'm_ hoping.
>
> Yes. The PPM used to be really meagre with builds 5xx (5.005_**) but with
> 6xx (5.6.*) the situation has improved. I believe they have some kind of
> semi-automated way of making PPMs from CPAN modules.
>
ExtUtils::MakeMaker has support for producing PPD stuff now - I guess this
came in with 5.6.0 ...
/J\
