in reply to Re: Perl modules in Windows
in thread Perl modules in Windows

True, tilly, but at least since ActivePerl 5.6.1 PPM automatically translates the "::" to "-".

Actually PPM or maybe ActiveState's repository itself has its caveats, such as it's impossible to install MIME::Lite, 'cause it shows up twice there...

<UPDATE>
Actually I was wrong here, and tilly was somewhat correct. If ppm finds more than one result for a module you can choose wich one to install by numbers. PPM 3.0 translates '::' to '-' on the install command, but it doesn't for the uninstall command...
</UPDATE>

But to people that are used to work with ActiveState's products - I use Komodo, their multi-language editor - knows that they have some strange bugs sometimes (no flame intended here).

Justo to be sure that nobody misunderstands me, I love Komodo and I think ActivePerl and PPM are great products, but they sure have it's problems.

Best regards,

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Re: Re: Re: Perl modules in Windows
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 06, 2003 at 05:06 UTC
    The idea of a PPM repository is somewhat novel, but ActiveState is certainly not responsible for it. ExtUtils::Installed and ExtUtils::MakeMaker are. All ActiveState came up with is an XML format to describe packages, prerequisites (PPD). The ppm distribution (module utility and related files) are very poorly managed and maintained (just look at the source http://downloads.activestate.com/PPM/PPM-3.00.56-src.tar.gz, no tests of any kind).