Hi All, I guess I should chime in on this.
Robert Eden wrote: > Has there been any progress on a windows PPM release? (or fixing > whatever problem the automated tool has) Hmn!! Automated tool :) I wish we had one :) Well, I have started something along the lines of an automated tool. It is by far no means ready for production but it kinda works. It took some time (to write the script) but I was able to generate ppm's for the following: (for perl 5.8.3) 04/14/2004 07:26a 603 DateTime-0.21.ppd 04/14/2004 11:15a 892 DateTime-Calendar-Chinese.ppd 04/14/2004 11:17a 634 DateTime-Calendar-Christian.ppd 04/14/2004 10:36a 516 DateTime-Calendar-Coptic.ppd 04/14/2004 10:04a 564 DateTime-Calendar-FrenchRevolutionary 04/14/2004 11:14a 531 DateTime-Calendar-Hebrew.ppd 04/14/2004 08:23a 486 DateTime-Calendar-Hijri-0.00.ppd 04/14/2004 11:15a 521 DateTime-Calendar-Japanese-Era.ppd 04/14/2004 11:15a 738 DateTime-Calendar-Japanese.ppd 04/14/2004 11:15a 473 DateTime-Calendar-Julian.ppd 04/14/2004 10:05a 519 DateTime-Calendar-Mayan.ppd 04/14/2004 11:13a 605 DateTime-Calendar-Pataphysical.ppd 04/14/2004 11:13a 707 DateTime-Event-Chinese.ppd 04/14/2004 10:36a 578 DateTime-Event-Cron.ppd 04/14/2004 11:13a 639 DateTime-Event-Easter.ppd 04/14/2004 10:36a 514 DateTime-Event-ICal.ppd 04/14/2004 11:17a 740 DateTime-Event-Lunar.ppd 04/14/2004 11:13a 681 DateTime-Event-NameDay.ppd 04/14/2004 08:29a 512 DateTime-Event-Random-0.03.ppd 04/14/2004 11:22a 514 DateTime-Event-Recurrence.ppd 04/14/2004 11:15a 691 DateTime-Event-SolarTerm.ppd 04/14/2004 11:15a 557 DateTime-Event-Sunrise.ppd 04/14/2004 11:15a 549 DateTime-Fiction-JRRTolkien-Shire.ppd 04/14/2004 10:36a 485 DateTime-Fiscal-Year.ppd 04/14/2004 11:15a 508 DateTime-Format-Bork.ppd 04/14/2004 11:14a 582 DateTime-Format-Builder.ppd 04/14/2004 11:16a 521 DateTime-Format-DateManip.ppd 04/14/2004 10:03a 513 DateTime-Format-DBI.ppd 04/14/2004 11:13a 479 DateTime-Format-Epoch.ppd 04/14/2004 11:15a 467 DateTime-Format-Excel.ppd 04/14/2004 11:13a 497 DateTime-Format-HTTP.ppd 04/14/2004 11:16a 710 DateTime-Format-ICal.ppd 04/14/2004 10:37a 524 DateTime-Format-ISO8601.ppd 04/14/2004 11:15a 709 DateTime-Format-Japanese.ppd 04/14/2004 10:04a 531 DateTime-Format-Mail.ppd 04/14/2004 10:04a 587 DateTime-Format-Pg.ppd 04/14/2004 11:13a 528 DateTime-Format-Roman.ppd 04/14/2004 11:14a 650 DateTime-Format-Strptime.ppd 04/14/2004 11:15a 472 DateTime-Format-W3CDTF.ppd 04/14/2004 08:25a 463 DateTime-Functions-0.01.ppd 04/14/2004 10:05a 466 DateTime-HiRes.ppd 04/14/2004 10:04a 575 DateTime-Incomplete.ppd 04/14/2004 10:38a 421 DateTime-Locale.ppd 04/14/2004 10:03a 398 DateTime-Precise.ppd 04/14/2004 08:30a 485 DateTime-Set-0.16.ppd 04/14/2004 10:36a 406 DateTime-Stringify.ppd 04/14/2004 10:36a 528 DateTime-TimeZone-Alias.ppd 04/14/2004 10:36a 459 DateTime-TimeZone-LMT.ppd 04/14/2004 11:16a 498 DateTime-TimeZone.ppd 04/14/2004 08:00a 597 DateTime-Util-Astro-0.02.ppd 04/14/2004 10:35a 584 DateTime-Util-Calc.ppd 04/14/2004 11:22a 407 DateTimeCron-Simple.ppd 04/14/2004 11:22a 455 DateTimeFormat-Duration.ppd Now, what can I do with these? I do not have a web page to put them on. Grant it this needs a lot of work, but it is a start. Comments, suggestions on how to proceed let me know. (I'm tried :( ) Thanks Ron Hill the script ------------------------------------------------------------- use strict; use warnings; use LWP::UserAgent; use File::Basename; use HTML::LinkExtor; use URI::URL; use PPM::Make; #use Data::Dumper; my $base_dir = 'f:/datetime_dest'; my $dest_source = 'f:/datetime_dest/archive'; my $url = "http://cpan.org/modules/01modules.index.html"; my %module = get_datetime_modules($url); my @source_modules = get_files($dest_source); #get the difference between the two foreach my $filename(@source_modules) { if ( exists( $module{$filename} ) ) { delete $module{$filename}; } } #make the distro while ( my ( $filename, $urlpath ) = each(%module) ) { my $ppm = PPM::Make->new( dist => "$urlpath", vs => 'yes', ignore => 'yes', upload => { ar => $dest_source, ppd => $base_dir }, vsr => 'yes', ); eval { $ppm->make_ppm(); }; next if $@; } sub get_datetime_modules { my ($url) = @_; my %module = (); my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; # Set up a callback that collect image links our @ahref = (); sub callback { my ( $tag, %attr ) = @_; return if $tag ne 'a'; foreach my $item( values %attr ) { push ( @ahref, $item ) if ( $item =~ /\/DateTime.*.tar.gz/ ); } } my $p = HTML::LinkExtor->new( \&callback ); my $res = $ua->request( HTTP::Request->new( GET => $url ), sub { $p->parse( $_[0] ) } ); # Expand all image URLs to absolute ones my $base = $res->base; @ahref = map { $_ = url( $_, $base )->abs; } @ahref; foreach my $item(@ahref) { my ( $name, $dir, $ext ) = fileparse( $item, '\..*' ); my $module_name = join ( '', $name, $ext ); $module{$module_name} = $item; } return %module; } sub get_files { my ($dir) = @_; opendir( DIR, $dir ) or die "Can't open directory $dir: $!"; my @listing = (); while ( defined( my $file = readdir(DIR) ) ) { next if $file =~ /^\.\.?$/; push ( @listing, $file ); } return @listing; }