On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Lyle Kopnicky wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I know how to use PPM from the command line, but I want to call it from
> Perl, preferably without spawning separate processes. There seems to be
> a PPM3 module installed in ActivePerl, but how do I access it? E.g., I
> would like to write something like:
>
> use PPM;
> my $ppm = new PPM;
> $ppm->install('http://blahblah.net/Package.ppd') or die "Failed to
> install package.";
> my @search_packages = $ppm->search('FunPackage');
> print (map "$_->name\n", @search_packages);
While it is _possible_ to use the PPM3 module outside of PPM, I would
strongly recommend not to do this. It requires quite a bit of convoluted
setup to make it work right, and executing it in an external process is
much easier.
Cheers,
-Jan
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