Re: ppm rep describe

[randyk]

I also find the same problem on XP. What you might try instead is accessing the information directly from PPM::UI:

use strict;
use warnings;
use PPM::UI;
my $name = q{ActiveState PPM2 Repository};
my $results = PPM::UI::repository_info($name);
my $result = $results->{result};
print <<"END";

Name: $result->[0]
Location: $result->[1]
Type: $result->[2]

END

[QM]

Thanks! That fixed it.

I must have run out of steam, because I didn't think to look into how ppm3-bin was doing it.

You gotta love the fact that PPM::UI doesn't seem to exist on CPAN, or the fact that the file on my local disk doesn't have POD. (Or did I miss something there too?)

[randyk]

You didn't miss anything - the pod is minimal (non-existent :) for PPM::UI. There is a PPM package on CPAN, but this is only version 2, used in ActivePerl 6xx; the interface to version 3 of ppm, used in 8xx, has changed quite a bit.