September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
10h
English
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Downloading Perl Modules with ppm
The Perl community has been a closely knit community over the years. It includes the many software developers who have freely donated software written to the informal Perl module specification that we have been discussing. Much of this software resides on either the CPAN or the ActiveState repositories. See www.cpan.org or www.activestate.com.
The Perl Package Manager
In the previous sections, we discussed a module named Roman.pm. We used this module to reinforce the principles that are common to all modules. We downloaded this module using the Perl Package Manager, ppm3.bat, utility that is delivered with the ActiveState version of Perl. This utility allows you to search a vast repository of Perl modules. We ...