Set me straight about that error message, "Error: no suitable installation target found for package...".

Given that the ppd contains: 

<SOFTPKG NAME="B-Generate" VERSION="0,06,0,0">
<TITLE>B-Generate</TITLE>
<ABSTRACT></ABSTRACT>
<AUTHOR></AUTHOR>
<IMPLEMENTATION>
<OS NAME="MSWin32" />
<ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread" />
<CODEBASE HREF="http://ppd.develop-help.com/ppd/data/B-Generate-0.06.t
+ar.gz" />
</IMPLEMENTATION>
</SOFTPKG>

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And my perl installation lists: 

P:\test>perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 4) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
[snip]

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PPM is rejecting the install attempt because??

I googled for the error message, and it turns up a lot in questions, but rarely any answers.

When it does receive an answer, it is usually some speculation that "Your ppm installation is broken" or "PPM can't find you perl installation and so doesn't know where to install the package". Both of which are clearly wrong as I can successfully install any number of packages using PPM.

After looking at the ppd's of one or two packages I can install using PPM, I find they tend to look like this: 

<SOFTPKG NAME="FFI" VERSION="1,00,0,0">
<TITLE>FFI</TITLE>
<ABSTRACT>Foreign Function Interface for Perl</ABSTRACT>
<AUTHOR>Paul Moore &lt;gustav@morpheus.demon.co.uk&gt;</AUTHOR>
<IMPLEMENTATION>
<OS NAME="MSWin32" />
<ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread" />
<CODEBASE HREF="FFI-1.00-PPM.5.6.tar.gz" />
</IMPLEMENTATION>
<IMPLEMENTATION>
<OS NAME="MSWin32" />
<ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8" />
<CODEBASE HREF="FFI-1.00-PPM.5.8.tar.gz" />
</IMPLEMENTATION>
</SOFTPKG>

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Which seems to indicate to me that in .ppds, the architecture name: "MSWin32-x86-multi-thread", really means ""MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.6"?

And that despite that Perl (5.8.x) itself lists the architecture as "MSWin32-x86-multi-thread", PPM knows better?

So what that error message ("Error: no suitable installation target found for package...") should really saying is:

"Error: no suitable installation source found for package..."

Or maybe "Error: 'xxxxx.ppd' doesn't contain an installation source for your architecture ('MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8')".

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In reply to Re^2: B::Generate for Win32? by BrowserUk
in thread B::Generate for Win32? by BrowserUk

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