NAME
PAR::Dist::InstallPPD - Installs PPM packages the PAR way
SYNOPSIS
use PAR::Dist::InstallPPD;
# Creates a .par distribution of the Tk module in the
# current directory based on the Tk.ppd file from the excellent
# bribes.org PPM repository.
par_install_ppd(uri => 'http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/Tk.ppd');
# You could download the .ppd and .tar.gz files first and then do:
par_install_ppd(uri => 'Tk.ppd', verbose => 1);DESCRIPTION
This module creates PAR distributions from PPD XML documents which are used by ActiveState's "Perl Package Manager", short PPM. Then, it installs these newly created temporary .par files in the default location using PAR::Dist's install_par routine.
Yes, that means you can install packages for the PPM without PPM.
The module uses PAR::Dist::FromPPD to create the .par files.
Please note that this code works for me but hasn't been tested to full extent.
EXPORT
By default, the par_install_ppd subroutine is exported to the caller's namespace.
SUBROUTINES
This is a list of all public subroutines in the module.
par_install_ppd
This routine takes the same arguments as ppd_to_par from PAR::Dist::FromPPD except for the output directory and the options that set the meta data for the produced .par file. The details are reproduced below.
The only mandatory parameter is an URI for the PPD file to parse.
Arguments:
uri => 'ftp://foo/bar' or 'file:///home/you/file.ppd', ...
verbose => 1/0 (verbose mode on/off)
selectarch => Regular Expression.
selectperl => Regular Expression.If a regular expression is specified using selectarch, that expression is matched against the architecture settings of each implementation. The first matching implementation is chosen. If none matches, the implementations are tried in order of appearance.
selectperl works the same as selectarch, but operates on the (minimum) perl version of an implementation. If both selectperl and selectarch are present, selectperl operates on the implementations matched by selectarch. That means selectarch takes precedence.
SEE ALSO
The PAR::Dist module is used to create .par distributions and install them. The PAR::Dist::FromPPD module converts the PPD package descriptions.
PAR has a mailing list, <par@perl.org>, that you can write to; send an empty mail to <par-subscribe@perl.org> to join the list and participate in the discussion.
Please send bug reports to <bug-par-dist-fromcpan@rt.cpan.org>.
The official PAR website may be of help, too: http://par.perl.org
For details on the Perl Package Manager, please refer to ActiveState's website at http://activestate.com.
AUTHOR
Steffen Mueller, <smueller at cpan dot org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2006 by Steffen Mueller
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.6 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.