ftp PPM archive

thor has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all,

I find myself needing to do some development in a Windows environment. Unfortunately, the machine that I'm going to be working on is behind a firewall that blocks traffic on port 80. This means that in the default configuration, I can't grab any modules that I might need along the way. However, I have found out through experimentation that I can go to an ftp server. I see in the docs for ppm that it has the ability to fetch modules from a ppm repository over ftp. Are there any publicly available repostitories that provide their service over ftp instead of http?

thor

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Re: ftp PPM archive by chester (Hermit) on Aug 05, 2005 at 19:39 UTC
This isn't a direct answer to your question, but you can also use ppm with a local repository. You then could download the modules from the FTP server manually. This link explains more. Installing modules is (usually) an infrequent enough task that I dont' think this would be too painful.	[reply]
Re: ftp PPM archive by planetscape (Chancellor) on Aug 06, 2005 at 03:36 UTC
You might also wish to look at tachyon's PPM section of "A Guide to Installing Modules" and holli's definitive A guide to installing modules for Win32. HTH, planetscape	[reply]
Re: ftp PPM archive by bart (Canon) on Aug 06, 2005 at 17:15 UTC
A Google search for ""ftp://" ppd" revealed that in theory, apache.org should have an FTP site. Just examine the URL for this mirror: http://mir2.ovh.net/ftp.apache.org/dist/perl/win32-bin/ppms/. But my browser can't seem to locate the domain ftp://ftp.apache.org, due to a DNS problem. `apache.org` has an excellent repository for perl 5.8.x. Maybe you can see that site. Update: Got one! I found an FTP mirror of Apache's repository: ftp://ftp.physics.auth.gr/pub/mirrors/apache/perl/win32-bin/ppms/. There could be more out there. And there's an FTP site for DBI: ftp://ftp.esoftmatic.com/outgoing/DBI/ (for various Perl versions; 5.8.4 ought to work for anything more recent). But that would appear to be all.	[reply]