I also commend your correct spelling of "tightarse"Thank you !! That was, of course, my major concern. Woulder been nice if you'd also acknowledged that I had (correctly) referred to the inhabitants of Scotland as "Scots" rather than "Scotch people" ... it's a subtlety that's often completely overlooked "down under".
I am, of course, being deliberately (and ridiculously) flippant :-)
one thing that would be nice (and may already exist) is an up-to-date list of PPM repositoriesQuite by chance, I stumbled upon this a few days back (from ActivePerl's lib/PPM/Repositories.pm) which may well be the best such list going around:
our %Repositories = (
bioperl => {
location => 'http://bioperl.org/DIST/',
Notes => 'BioPerl - Regular Releases',
PerlV => [ 5.8, '5.10' ],
},
'bioperl-rc' => {
location => 'http://bioperl.org/DIST/RC/',
Notes => 'BioPerl - Releases Candidates',
PerlV => [ 5.8, '5.10' ],
},
bribes => {
location => 'http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/',
Notes => 'Bribes de Perl',
PerlV => [ 5.6, 5.8, '5.10', 5.12 ],
},
gtk2 => {
location => 'http://www.lostmind.de/gtk2-perl/ppm/',
Notes => 'gtk2-perl bindings (check also \'voltar\' reposit
+ory)',
},
'gtk2-old' => {
location => 'http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/win32/ppm/',
Notes => 'Old "official" Gtk2 repository',
},
log4perl => {
location => 'http://log4perl.sourceforge.net/ppm',
Notes => 'log4perl (pure perl)',
PerlV => [ ],
PerlO => ['perl'],
},
roth => {
location => 'http://www.roth.net/perl/packages/',
Notes => 'Dave Roth\'s modules',
PerlV => [ 5.6, 5.8 ],
},
'tcool-ppm3' => {
location => 'http://ppm.tcool.org/server/ppmserver.cgi?urn:PPM
+Server',
Type => 'PPMServer',
Notes => 'Kenichi Ishigaki\'s repository (PPM3))',
},
tcool => {
location => 'http://ppm.tcool.org/archives/',
Notes => 'Kenichi Ishigaki\'s repository (PPM4)',
},
trouchelle58 => {
location => 'http://trouchelle.com/ppm/',
Notes => 'Trouchelle: 5.8',
},
trouchelle510 => {
location => 'http://trouchelle.com/ppm10/',
Notes => 'Trouchelle: 5.10',
PerlV => [ '5.10' ],
},
trouchelle512 => {
location => 'http://trouchelle.com/ppm12/',
Notes => 'Trouchelle: 5.12',
PerlV => [ 5.12 ],
},
'uwinnipeg56-ppm3' => {
location => 'http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/cgi-bin/ppmserver?ur
+n:/PPMServer',
Type => 'PPMServer',
Notes => 'University of Winnipeg: 5.6 (PPM3)',
PerlV => [ 5.6 ],
},
uwinnipeg56 => {
location => 'http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppmpackages',
Notes => 'University of Winnipeg: 5.6',
PerlV => [ 5.6 ],
},
'uwinnipeg58-ppm3' => {
location => 'http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/cgi-bin/ppmserver?ur
+n:/PPMServer58',
Type => 'PPMServer',
Notes => 'University of Winnipeg: 5.8 (PPM3)',
},
uwinnipeg58 => {
location => 'http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms',
Notes => 'University of Winnipeg: 5.8 (PPM4)',
},
uwinnipeg510 => {
location => 'http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/PPMPackages/10xx/',
Notes => 'University of Winnipeg: 5.10',
PerlV => [ '5.10' ],
},
uwinnipeg512 => {
location => 'http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/PPMPackages/12xx/',
Notes => 'University of Winnipeg: 5.12',
PerlV => [ 5.12 ],
},
voltar => {
location => 'http://voltar.org/active/5.8/',
Notes => 'Paul Miller\'s Games::RolePlay::MapGen and Gtk2 r
+epository',
},
wxperl => {
location => 'http://www.wxperl.co.uk/repository',
Notes => 'wxPerl modules',
PerlV => [ 5.8, '5.10', 5.12 ],
},
);
Cheers,
Rob