Changes for version 0.83
- use better cross-platform method to guess if a module is installed as a core module (reported by Jeff McCarrell)
- introduce no_html option in PPM::Make (--no-html in make_ppm) to disable building of html docs, as some platforms (eg, linux) may not have an installhtmldir specified in Perl's Config (reported by Jeff McCarrell)
- introduce --no-cfg as an alias to --no_cfg in make_ppm
- allow zipped distributions made with the --zipdist option to be uploaded to a specified location, just as is done with the ppd and tar.gz files
- in making up a ppd file, fetch either from the remote soap server or from CPAN.pm a list of modules for the given distribution, and use that to populate PROVIDE elements in the ppd file (introduced in ppm4). This can be disabled by using the no_pp,4 option in PPM::Make, or the --no-ppm4 switch in make_ppm
- INCOMPATIBLE change: in PPM::Make, change the zip option to zip_archive, to enable creation of .zip archives, rather than .tar.gz ones.
- Add PPM::Make::RepositorySummary to make ppm summary files (summary.ppm, searchsummary.ppm, package.lst, package.xml) for a repository, and add a rep_summary script as an interface
Documentation
make a PPM distribution
build and install a distribution via ppm
generate summary files for a ppm repository
Modules
Make a ppm package from a CPAN distribution
build and install a distribution via ppm
generate summary files for a ppm repository
Utility functions for PPM::Make
Base element class for XML elements
PPD file format and XML parsing elements
PPMConfig file format and XML parsing elements
XML Element with DTD-like validation rules