Re: [Module-build-general] Re: Module Build 0.16 PPM

[Randy W. S. <Ra...@Th...>]

ActiveState just opened a new list for PPM which I've CC'd so that maybe 
Jan Dubois and Co. can offer some suggestions/insights.

On 3/4/2003 3:48 PM, Ken Williams wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 02:38  PM, Bri...@AR... wrote:
> 
>> Ken -
>>
>> I downloaded and installed Module::Build 0.16 on my Win32 ActiveState 
>> Perl
>> 5.6 without a hitch.  Great work!  Much smoother than the 0.15
>> installation I conversed with you about last month.
>>
>> I've attached a PPM package for Win32 ActiveState Perl 5.6 
>> installation of
>> Module::Build 0.16 -- Feel free to use it and distribute if you like.
>> Note, my crappy mailer (Lotus Notes) will probably munge the name to 
>> 8.3 -
>> it's originally 'Module-Build-0.16_ppm.tar.gz'
>>
>> I'm not sure what's involved (too busy to dig in right now), but
>> supporting a build target of 'ppd' mirroring the functionality of the
>> existing MakeMaker system will ease generation of these package for 
>> future
>> users of Module::Build.
> 
> 
> Awesome, thanks for testing and for the PPM.  I'm quite interested in 
> supporting a 'ppd' action (both for M::B itself and for other modules 
> built using M::B), so at some point I'll want to figure out how to do 
> this properly.  How did you create this one?

The ppd target prints a simple xml file describing the distribution for 
PPM. The format is based on the Open Software Description format 
<http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-OSD.html>

The only problem with the ppd target under M::B is specifying prereqs-
How will M::B's more dynamic & flexible dependencies be specified in the 
static ppd file? (rf.
  <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php
   ?thread_id=1676522&forum_id=10905>
).

> Where's the best place for me to put the PPM tarball?  I can certainly 
> upload it to my CPAN directory, should I also see about getting it in 
> the ActiveState repository or something?
> 
>  -Ken

ActiveState regularly performs an automated build and packaging (PPM) of 
modules on CPAN. If the module builds without problem it is 
automatically placed in their repository (as M::B currently is for most 
AS supported archs). It looks like you can check the status at
<http://ppm-ia.activestate.com>

Currently there is only one failure: perl-5.8 on hpux-ia64-lp64 (Hmm, it 
passes with perl-5.6 on same arch; Unfortunately there doesn't seem to 
be any log for the failures.)

Randy.