On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 05:47:41PM -0700, Jan Dubois wrote:
>  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.

With only 2 PPDs, this isn't really an issue.

>  > 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.

Truth is, I don't remember why HTML-Embperl is there.

I build Imager because the more general repositories don't build it
with the various libraries that Imager uses (libgif, libpng, libtiff,
freetype).  Also, the ActiveState repository is typically broken wrt
Imager.

>  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.

Please include it.

Tony
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