RE: PPM (was Re: XML::Pastor v0.52 is released - A REVOLUTIONARY way to deal with XML

"Jan Dubois" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.xml
Message-ID <098e01c8dafb$a9c2c6e0$fd4854a0$@com>
Looks like XML-Pastor-0.52 is available now from the Trouchelle repository
(for Windows only):

    http://trouchelle.com/perl/ppmrepview.pl

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Bruce Miller wrote:
> Ayhan Ulusoy wrote:
> > Sorry for the ignorance. I looked it up on the web. It looks like
> > PPM stands for Perl Package Manager. It seems that it is a graphical
> > equivalent of the CPAN shell.
>
> not so much necessarily graphical, and more of an equivalent to the
> standard perl Makefile.PL; make...

PPM has both a commandline *and* a GUI interface...

The main difference between PPM and the CPAN shell is that PPM downloads
a pre-compiled binary, so doesn't need a C compiler on the local system.

> OT question, since I'd also like the capability of generating ppm's.
>
> Is there a way of generating ppms for `simple' cases (no xs, etc)
> using the Perl on a typical linux distro?
> [Ie. w/o running windows or installing the entire active perl]

Did you look at PPM-Make?

    http://search.cpan.org/dist/PPM-Make/

Cheers,
-Jan

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