NAME

PPM::Repositories - a list of all known ppm package repositories

SYNOPSIS

use PPM::Repositories;
                                                #
# Print out all *Active* repositories for perl 5.8.x
                                                #
for my $rep ( keys %Repositories ) {
    next unless $Repositories{$rep}->{Active};
    next unless grep { $_ == 5.8 } @{ $Repositories{$rep}->{PerlV} };
    print $rep,$/,
        $Repositories{$rep}->{location},$/,
        $Repositories{$rep}->{Notes},$/,
        $/;
# uncomment the following lines to automatically add them to your config
#        use PPM;
#        PPM::AddRepository(
#            "repository" => $rep,
#            "location"   => $Repositories{$rep}->{location},
#            "save" => 'yes');
}

DESCRIPTION

This is a list of all known ppm repositores (barring the activestate ones). Currently, most of them are Win32 specific, mainly because the *nix folks have CPAN/CPANPLUS as well as free compilers.

An example entry in %Repositories looks like:

datetime => {
    location  => 'http://datetime.perl.org/download',
    Type      => 'Webpage',
    Active    => 1,
    Notes     => 'Get your DateTime modules here',
    PerlV     => [ 5.6, 5.8 ],
    PerlO     => ['MSWin32'],
},

The meaning of the key/value pairs should be obvious.

Active is either 1, or 0, and it indicates whether or not that particular repository existed (you could reach it via the internet), and contained ppm packages, when this module was released.

PerlO is the value of $^O. The value 'perl' is used to indicate pure-perl (meaning all OS').

$^O values for various operating systems:
    http://alma.ch/perl/perloses.htm
    http://crazyinsomniac.perlmonk.org/perl/misc/perloses.htm

See the SYNOPSIS for example usage. See PPM for help with ppm.

EXPORT

%Repositories is exported by default.

If you wanna run your own repository

Simply read my repository README <http://crazyinsomniac.perlmonk.org/perl/ppm/README.html> or these tutorials:

113448 ! perltutorial ! HowTo build and distribute a PPMed module for Win32
    http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=113448
    http://perlmonks.thepen.com/113448.html

How2 - create a PPM distribution 
    http://jenda.krynicky.cz/perl/PPM.html

BUGS/ADDITIONS/ETC

Please use https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=PPM-Repositories to report bugs/additions/etc or send mail to <bug-PPM-Repositories#rt.cpan.org>.

AUTHOR

D. H. (PodMaster)

LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2003 by D.H. (PodMaster). All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. If you don't know what this means, visit http://perl.com/ or http://cpan.org/.

SEE ALSO

PPM, PPM::Make, CPANPLUS, CPAN.