Hi,
The version of PPM currently found on CPAN cannot handle the ActiveState ppd
files:

 D:\> ppm search Math::FFT
Unknown element 'PROVIDE' found inside of IMPLEMENTATION. at
D:/perl58_M/site/5.8.8/lib/PPM.pm line 1537.

D:\> ppm install Math::FFT
Installing package 'Math-FFT'...
Element 'IMPLEMENTATION' cannot contain a child element 'PROVIDE' at
D:/perl58_M/site/5.8.8/lib/PPM.pm line 1658.
Can't locate object method "rvalidate" via package "PPM::XML::PPD::PROVIDE"
at D:/perl58_M/site/5.8.8/lib/PPM/XML/ValidatingElement.pm line 38.

I've posted essentially the same report to rt.cpan.org.

There's no such problem with the bribes ppd files - and there's probably no
problem with the uwinnipeg ppd files (but I've been unable to verify that as
the ppd files at that repository seeem to be temporarily inaccessible).

Any plans to upgrade the PPM version found on CPAN ? (I'm assuming there are
no plans to downgrade the ppd files found in the AS rep :-)

Cheers,
Rob