(crazyinsomniac: it's up) Re: CrazyPPM repository, interested?
by crazyinsomniac (Prior) on Apr 29, 2002 at 08:45 UTC
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Allright. I got a few people supporting this idea
and I'd like to say thanks.
The repository is located at:
http://crazyinsomniac.perlmonk.org/perl/ppm. Depending on your version of PPM, you can add/use it by typing
ppm>set rep crazy http://crazyinsomniac.perlmonk.org/perl/ppm
ppm>search *
or
ppm3>rep add crazy http://crazyinsomniac.perlmonk.org/perl/ppm
ppm3>search *
As soon as I find out how ppm likes it, I'll structure the repository so I can keep multiple versions of modules if people request them.
So far I have 4
( BerkeleyDB
DBD-SQLite
Compress-Bzip2
DB_File
) packages, so goan right ahead and play.
ps -- most of the stuff compiled/tested fine, but one or two had some warnings, but nothing to worry about ... if you're interested, I might even start adding Module-Version.report ~ basically an account of how thing went, from before perl Makefile.PL to buildppm).
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Re: CrazyPPM repository, interested?
by beebware (Pilgrim) on Apr 30, 2002 at 13:48 UTC
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Here's a list of all the other repositories that I am aware of... If only there was a central one we could use (hint hint) that had ALL the modules in one place...
http://ppd.develop-help.com/ppd/
http://www.roth.net/perl/packages/
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/~ach/ptk/ppm/
http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppmpackages/
http://dada.perl.it/PPM
http://jenda.krynicky.cz/perl
http://rto.dk/packages/
http://openinteract.sourceforge.net/ppmpackages/
http://ppm.gingerall.cz
http://www.epn.ml.org/~spurkis/Agent/repository
http://homepage.eircom.net/~jmcnamara/perl
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http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/%7Each/ptk/ppm/:
16:16:22 ERROR 404: File Not Found.
http://dada.perl.it/PPM/:
16:16:34 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
http://rto.dk/packages/:
16:17:17 ERROR 404: Not Found.
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/~ach/ptk/ppm/ is gone,
the parent redirects to a new
server and it appears that Achim Bohnet is out of the PPM biz
(there's a site but no mention of .ppm 's on it).
Dada's site has always been flickery.
It probably would not be too hard (famous last words!) to cobble
together some Perl to query this list of sites for ppm packages
and see what's where. I managed an inelegant pass at this tonight
using just wget (to build up a group of indexes) and HTML::TokeParser
(to extract URLs from those indexes). Doing it elegantly in pure Perl
is left as an exercise for the next reader, or for me when I acquire
a round tuit.
Or, use PPM.pm itself as this node guides you to do. | [reply] [d/l] |
Re: CrazyPPM repository, interested?
by Steve_p (Priest) on Apr 27, 2002 at 04:43 UTC
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Thanks a lot! To save your time with Perl only packages, you may want to add some links to CPAN and nmake (located somewhere in Microsoft). Also, adding a link to Randy Kobes repository which includes mod_perl. I'd put the links in this message, but their, of course, in my bookmarks at work right now. | [reply] |
Re: CrazyPPM repository, interested?
by osfameron (Hermit) on Apr 28, 2002 at 15:57 UTC
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Why can't ActiveState be persuaded to distribute every module as a ppm?
Good question "chickenman", although the answer is fairly simple : as you know, there is far too many modules and a lot aren't intended for win32, and the only way to find that out is to download each one ..... that's a lot of man hours.
Additionally/alternatively: why can't we download ppm's directly from CPAN
(e.g. only for those modules which require compilation).
Well for providing PPM's on CPAN, not bad, except it might bloat CPAN more than it is already (currently at about 1 Gigabyte)...
It's so frustrating to search for a module, check if it
needs to be compiled and then still have to search for the
ppm.
(And I think that this functionality would improve
CPAN's usability)
That it is, I wish CPAN allowed for more METADATA to be provided, so it can be indexed, and easily incorporated into the search, so you know before hand if a module needs compiling, or if it was intended for a particular platform: this would make the cpan-tester's' jobs easier
... I think a reasonable "improvement" to cpan would be a METADATA file, just like the MANIFEST or README, which would have key=value pairs like FOR_OS = win32,unix,linux ... or perhaps even have it be XML ...
Maybe someone should propose this to the CPAN folk
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Re: CrazyPPM repository, interested?
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Apr 26, 2002 at 21:09 UTC
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Re: CrazyPPM repository, interested?
by 2mths (Beadle) on Feb 27, 2003 at 13:44 UTC
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This all looks Win32 orientated and as a Win32 user I am therefore in favour of this.
A lot of the discussion in this thread is going way over my head. As does much of the discussion on this site.
I would like to say a thanks for people progressing this side of things and the senior monks for their efforts and support of us neophytes. | [reply] |
Re: CrazyPPM repository, interested?
by MadraghRua (Vicar) on Mar 15, 2003 at 00:09 UTC
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The thing that bugged me the most was not (or hardly) being able to have the AS help docs contain the docs of all installed modules.
My troubles are over since POD-browser 0.01 got released recently. (http://www.perlmonks.com/index.pl?node_id=254944)
ppm's, cpan-mods, homecooked stuff, it's all showing in this baby.
All wiyht. Rho sritched mg kegtops awound?
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Re: CrazyPPM repository, interested?
by Eyck (Priest) on Oct 28, 2004 at 07:33 UTC
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Re: CrazyPPM repository, interested?
by BUU (Prior) on Apr 26, 2002 at 22:16 UTC
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/me wonders why, if your running a repository for win32 binaries, the files are .tar.gz.. | [reply] |
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