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
CPAN is a critical library for Perl programmers, and knowing how to install modules from this repository into ActivePerl is important. In a prior blog...
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
For information on how to install CPAN moduels on newer versions of ActivePerl, read the blog Installing CPAN modules on ActivePerl 5.18 or Later. Act...
“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 Ac...
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...
New PPM servers in full swing20081107233100
New PPM servers in full swing
November 7, 2008ppm
Following up on our previous post about rebuilding the ppm build server backend, we finally have flipped the switch for all PPM 4 clients (all ActiveP...