Use PPM-Make To Make My Own PPM Repository

After getting tired of disappearing modules @ theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca, and having to merge the files between several machines manually, I decided to build my own repository.

Luckily, Randy Kobes (the maintainer of theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca) also releases PPM-Make to compile the code from scratch, together with the release of MinGW under PPM, these make my life a lot easier to compile and host the ppm myself.

Playing with the PPM-Make module for a while, I realized that I sorely need:

1. To organize the directory structure
   
   • The .ppd & .tar.gz files: http://angrybots.com/ppm/as_p5_8_b822/x86/sandbox/
   • Archive (zip file for local install): http://angrybots.com/ppm/as_p5_8_b822/x86/sandbox/zips/
     
2. Another option (I named it vsz) to insert the version of the module to the zip file name for archiving purposes.

After hacking and gluing everything together, I present Acme-Bleach from my repository. To install:
> ppm install http://angrybots.com/ppm/as_p5_8_b822/x86/sandbox/Acme-Bleach.ppd

I'll upload more modules as I get them successfully compiled and tested.

PPM-Make

Just research the PPM::Make problem on my desktop, it appears that it has v0.94, I need to upgrade it to v0.96, and that's not half of the problem: apparently the ppm repository at theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca doesn't have v0.96. Surprise!

So I need to add tcool.org PPM repository:
> ppm repo add http://ppm.tcool.org/archives/package.xml

Researching the module again:
>ppm search ppm-make
1: PPM-Make
Make a ppm package from a CPAN distribution
Version: 0.940
Repo: theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca

2: PPM-Make
Make a ppm package from a CPAN distribution
Version: 0.96
Repo: ppm.tcool.org

Remedy:
>ppm install 2 --force
Downloading PPM-Make-0.96...done
Downloading libwww-perl-5.826...done
Downloading version-0.76...done
Downloading IO-Compress-2.019...done
Downloading Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.019...done
Downloading Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.019...done
Unpacking PPM-Make-0.96...done
Unpacking libwww-perl-5.826...done
Unpacking version-0.76...done
Unpacking IO-Compress-2.019...done
Unpacking Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.019...done
Unpacking Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.019...done
Generating HTML for PPM-Make-0.96...done
Generating HTML for libwww-perl-5.826...done
Generating HTML for version-0.76...done
Generating HTML for IO-Compress-2.019...done
Generating HTML for Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.019...done
Generating HTML for Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.019...done
Updating files in site area...done
169 files installed
8 files unchanged
22 files updated

Last, for $ENV{PATH} move C:\Perl5.8.8\site\bin to the front of C:\Perl5.8.8\bin

PPM-Make Is Goodz

Last night, I half jokingly installed PPM::Make and MinGW for Perl 5.8.8 on the laptop and built ORM 0.95. It worked. What was going on with my desktop?