Goodbye PPM, Hello State Tool20190723090056
Goodbye PPM, Hello State Tool
July 23, 2019activeperl, activeperl 5.28, activestate platform, ppm, ppm index, state tool
Our Perl Package Manager (PPM) is being phased out as we move forward with a new and improved solution for Perl package management. With the release o...
Good Things Come in Managed Packages20170516170432
Good Things Come in Managed Packages
May 16, 2017activego, activelua, activenode, activeperl, activepython, activetcl, ActuveRuby, godep, golang, lua, LuaRocks, node, nodejs, npm, package management, package manager, perl, pip, ppm, pypi, pypm, python, ruby
Package management is a significant issue in every programming language and the number of packages associated with each language is astonishing. Pytho...
Installing CPAN Modules on ActivePerl 5.18 and Later20160107170000
Installing CPAN Modules on ActivePerl 5.18 and Later
January 7, 2016activeperl, cpan, CPAN modules, ppm, PPM Proxies Firewalls
November 2019 Update: PPM has been replaced with the ActiveState Platform, which enhances PPM’s build and deploy capabilities. Create a free account t...
Package Management at Your Fingertips in Komodo 9.120150609000000
Package Management at Your Fingertips in Komodo 9.1
June 9, 2015bower, composer, cpan, cpanm, gem, javascript, komodo, nodejs, npm, package management, package manager, perl, php, pip, ppm, pyptm, python, ruby
One of our big features in 9.1 is package management; you can easily install your project dependencies just by invoking Commando and installing the pa...
Highlights of Perl 5.1420110517213645
Highlights of Perl 5.14
May 17, 2011activeperl, perl, perl 5.14, ppm, regular expressions, release
We’ve just released ActivePerl 5.14.0! The exhaustive list of new features and improvements can be found in the perldelta document, but hereR...
PPM Index: A new way to browse Perl packages20110209144356
PPM Index: A new way to browse Perl packages
Perl Package Manager (PPM) installs pre-built Perl modules into ActivePerl. The ActiveState PPM repositories currently contain 13,000 to 16,000 module...
4 Reasons I’m Thankful for Perl20101124213830
4 Reasons I’m Thankful for Perl
November 24, 2010activeperl, cpan, perl, ppm
Getting some programmers to come up with a list of things they are thankful for in their favorite programming language is like getting a recalcitrant ...
How to install CPAN modules into ActivePerl20101022132142
How to install CPAN modules into ActivePerl
October 22, 2010activeperl, cpan, DBD-mysql, perl package manager, ppm
November 2019 Update: PPM has been replaced with the ActiveState Platform, which enhances PPM’s build and deploy capabilities. Create a free account t...
“Moderately timely” vulnerability notifications20091202003228
“Moderately timely” vulnerability notifications
December 2, 2009activeperl, ppm
Secunia reported a "moderately critical" vulnerability in ActivePerl today. It alarmed us until we noticed that they were citing an old ActivePerl 5.1...
ppm install MinGW20090129010605
ppm install MinGW
January 29, 2009activeperl, mingw, ppm, ppm install, ppm repository
Here’s a really cool development for ActivePerl users on Windows. MinGW is now available from the ActiveState PPM repository: C:\>ppm install...