I noticed that PPM3 choked when I tried to add a repository that had a question mark in it. It loaded other urls fine but crashed at function "new" when I added one with the same formatting as the other 2 repositories that come listed. PPM3 does not list modules installed by PPM. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 5:41 AM Subject: ppm3
> Many of the ppm's at ActiveState are out of date and/or do not include > proper documentation. For example DBI is as 1.14 (current is 1.20) and > modules including DBD::Sybase do not include HTML documentation. I > relaise I can use perldoc to reads the docs but I find the ActiverPerl > HTML documentation system very convenient. > > Anyway Since upgrading to 630 I decided to have a go with pp3, I see it > has its own repository with some newer (and some missing) modules. On > trying to install any module via ppm I get: > > ppm> install DBD-Oracle > ==================== > Install 'DBD-Oracle' version 1.06 in ActivePerl 630. > ==================== > Can't unlink file > C:/DOCUME~1/mjfsor/LOCALS~1/Temp/DBD-Oracle-1888/DBD-Oracle.ta > r.gz: Permission denied at PPM/Repository.pm line 186 > Can't remove directory C:/DOCUME~1/mjfsor/LOCALS~1/Temp/DBD-Oracle-1888: > Directo > ry not empty at PPM/Repository.pm line 186 > Error: error downloading > 'http://ppm.ActiveState.com/PPMpackages/5.6plus/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/DB > D-Oracle.tar.gz': 500 Can't connect to ppm.activestate.com:80 (Timeout) > > I've searched my system but can't find PPM/Repository.pm - I guess it's > linked into the ppm3.exe. > > ppm2 works fine. > > Finally. Please will someone at ActiveState point me in the right > direction for building ppm modules in such a way that it build the HTML > and chm files as necessary. I am used to building my own ppm's of CPAN > modules and I use pod2html to create the docs. Since I am forced to > build my own modules (so that I can keep up to date / include missing > documentation) I would also like to make my reporitories available to > the world, but I only want to do that if they are ActiveState > compatible. ActiveState must have internal guidelines / scripts for > doing all this. Please advise. > > I would 'cc' this directly to ActiveState but can't find a developer > contact in the docs. > > -- > Simon Oliver > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users > > _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users
