On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Tony Cook wrote:
>  
>      devhelp => {
>          location => 'http://ppd.develop-help.com/ppd',
>          Type     => 'Webpage',
>          Active   => 1,
>          Notes    => 'Imager and HTML::Embperl',
>  	# this repository contains a mix of 5.6 and 5.8 packages, but
>  	# each individual module is for only one of the 2 versions. :(
>          PerlV    => [ 5.6, 5.8 ],
>          PerlO    => ['MSWin32'],
>      },
>  
>  I guess I should clean it up.

It is not really necessary; PPM should handle this correctly by itself
by looking inside the *.ppd files (at least PPM4 does this correctly,
haven't used PPM2/PPM3 in a while and have forgotten about their
various bugs).

In general it is good practice to also have a package.lst and package.xml
file that summarizes all the *.ppd files.  That way PPM only has to download
and check a single file instead of doing HTTP requests for all *.ppd files
to see if they have been modified.  I'm not even sure if PPM will track the
modification time for individual PPDs, so it may periodically re-download
all of them, regardless of their modification times.
 
>  Not to mention do a new Imager build.

Did you verify that Imager and HTML-Embperl aren't available on e.g.
the Bribes or UWinnipeg repository?  Generally I think it is preferable
to keep the total number of repositories small.

Please let me know if you think your repository should be included in
the %REPO list used by the new function based API!  I haven't included
it because your website states that the repository is experimental,
and the file (except for Imager and HTML-Embperl) are all very old.

Cheers,
-Jan

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