On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:50:29PM -0700, Jan Dubois wrote: > > PPM4 actually supports putting the PPD file inside the tarball. When the > tarball is downloaded with a .ppmx extension, then the client knows to > extract the .ppd from inside the file and install everything else according > to this .ppd file. > > The big problem with this scheme is though that is doesn't allow you > to install prerequisites using this mechanism: You can double-click on > a .ppmx file in a web browser and it can be downloaded and installed > automatically. The ppm installer however no longer knows where the file > came from, so it cannot look for prerequisites in the same place.
The last time I used PPM it was able to support multiple repositories, in the same way apt or yum does. I also thought it was able to install prerequisites from these if a local ppd wasn't found. I'd certainly like to see a double-click installer work like that :) Cheers, Barbie. -- Birmingham Perl Mongers <http://birmingham.pm.org> Memoirs Of A Roadie <http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk> CPAN Testers Blog <http://blog.cpantesters.org> YAPC Conference Surveys <http://yapc-surveys.org>
