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.

    $^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.

BUGS/ADDITIONS

Please use https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=PPM-Repositories to report bugs/additions.

AUTHOR

D. H. aka PodMaster

LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2003 by D.H. aka 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.