BTW, I have given my repositories a facelift, and added an improved README.html.

Tomorrow (or rather later today) I'll finally finish up PPM::Repositories, and upload it to cpan.

The initial release will be what you see here along with pod. At this point i'm open to some suggestions as to what the module should do (i'm planning on adding functions for auto detection/addition of repositories to your list). So if you know of some repositories that aren't on my list, please speak up.

update: It's on cpan and here, and this now reflects the current released version. Your requests may not happen for a long while, cause well, they require actual porting ;(

MJD says you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo! I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6x+5.8x. I take requests. ** The Third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

Good point about eircom---I was just checking to see if the link was alive, didn't stay to look around. Don't know of any other repositories, what I put together was mostly from ActiveState, PM nodes and your notes. I see that you take requests!! In that case, I'd like to put in my plea for two, Net::Z3950 and Text::BibTeX, both of which have resisted efforts by others to join the PPM ranks. Thanks!

--hsm

"Never try to teach a pig to sing...it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."

They PPM files were mainly meant to be used in conjunction with the instructions in the INSTALL docs of the relevant modules. For Example:

    PPM> set repository tmp http://homepage.eircom.net/~jmcnamara/perl
    PPM> install Spreadsheet-WriteExcel
[download]

However, I've now set it up so that the PPM files also show up in a search:

    $ ppm search --location="http://homepage.eircom.net/~jmcnamara/per
+l"

    Packages available from http://homepage.eircom.net/~jmcnamara/perl
+:
    Inline-Awk             [0.03] Include awk code in a Perl program.
    Spreadsheet-WriteExcel [0.41] Write to a cross platform Excel bina
+ry file
[download]

Update: The search now works for ppm3 as well:

    $ ppm3 search "*"

    Searching in Active Repositories
    1. Inline-Awk             [0.03] Include awk code in a Perl progra
+m.
    2. Spreadsheet-WriteExcel [0.41] Write to a cross platform Excel b
+inary file
[download]

--
John.