On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Sisyphus wrote:

>  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 :-)

The problem with the uwinnipeg repository comes from us
inserting a PROVIDE element in the ppd file (which is
new for ppm4), and ppm2 not ignoring it. This patch
to the CPAN ppm version:

------------------------------------------------------
--- PPM.pm~	2006-10-03 09:26:46.000000000 -0500
+++ PPM.pm	2006-10-03 09:26:46.000000000 -0500
@@ -1445,7 +1445,7 @@
          }
          else {
              &Trace("Unknown element '$elem_type' found inside SOFTPKG") if $options{'TRACE
'};
-            die "Unknown element '$elem_type' found inside SOFTPKG.";
+#            die "Unknown element '$elem_type' found inside SOFTPKG.";
          }
      } # End of "for each child element inside the PPD"

@@ -1534,7 +1534,7 @@
                  { $ImplUninstallScript = $elem-> {Kids}[0]{Text}; }
          }
          else {
-            die "Unknown element '$elem_type' found inside of IMPLEMENTATION.";
+#            die "Unknown element '$elem_type' found inside of IMPLEMENTATION.";
          }
      } # end of 'for every element inside IMPLEMENTATION'

@@ -1767,7 +1767,7 @@
                  }
                  else
                  {
-                    die "Unknown element inside of $pkg PACKAGE; $child";
+#                    die "Unknown element inside of $pkg PACKAGE; $child";
                  }
              }

@@ -1780,7 +1780,7 @@
          }
          else
          {
-            die "Unknown element found in PPD_DAT file; $subelem";
+#            die "Unknown element found in PPD_DAT file; $subelem";
          }
      }
      if ($Debug & 1) {

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should help.

-- 
best regards,
Randy