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At 05:00 PM 2/8/01 -0200, Branden wrote: >I wrote: > > I think zip is the way to go! Is there any > > platform/license or any other restricting issues we should care about zip? > > Is it ported to all platforms Perl currently runs on? Is there a Perl >module > > for handling zips? > >Aren't we re-inventing the wheel here? It strikes me now that ActiveState's >ActivePerl comes with PPM, or `Perl Package Manager'. AFAIK, it's only for >downloading from ActiveState's site, and it only handles installing of >individual modules (althought it checks dependencies and fetches needed >modules as well, but it doesn't solve the problem for scripts/programs). > >Anyone of ActiveState there? Can't we adapt PPM so that it handles what's >needed? Or is it too different from what we want? Does it use zip or >tar/gzip or other? Eh? I thought PPM was simply "perl -MCPAN -e install" for Windows users, pointed to a set of modules which have XS content that they'd had to fiddle with to port to Win32. -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design TechnologiesThread Previous | Thread Next