On Wednesday, January 14, 2004, at 08:08 PM, Randy Kobes wrote:
There would be a problem with using the same names for the
'dist' and 'ppm_dist' archives if the module author wanted
to make up a CPAN distribution and include the 'ppm_dist'
archive (and associated ppd file) in it, so Win32 users
could just extract the ppd and associated 'ppm_dist' archive
and install it using ppm. What might be an idea is to rename
the 'ppm_dist' archive to, eg, 'Module-Name.tar.gz', and
adjust the codebase reference in Module-Name.ppd accordingly
(remember that you would then have to add these two files to
MANIFEST to get them included in the CPAN 'dist' archive).
Oh, I see - I didn't understand the issue when I sent the last message.
The problem is that Module-Name-0.01.tar.gz could alternately be a
CPAN source distribution or a PPM distribution? Then yeah, that is
confusing.
How about something even more informative for the PPD, like
PPM-Module-Name.tar.gz
or
PPM-Module-Name.zip
or something?
-Ken
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