What is PPM in Perl?

Perl Package Manager (PPM) is a Perl energy intended to simplify the duties of

1.locating,
2. installing,
3. upgrading
4.removing

the software packages.


It can determine if the most recent version of a software package is definitely installed on a program, and can set up or update that package from a regional or remote control web host.

PPM is wide-spread on Microsoft Windows systems, which often absence the C and C++ compilers required to build some Perl quests. Popular ActiveState's ActivePerl distribution comes with PPM included, various other distributions can make use of PPM after obtaining and building PPM component from CPAN.

PPM uses documents containing a modified type of the Open  Software  Distribution (OSD) specification for details about software program deals.

These explanation data files, which are created in Extensible Markup Vocabulary (XML) code, are known to as 'PPD' files. Info about OSD can become found out at the W3C website (at the period of this composing, http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-OSD.html). The adjustments to OSD utilized by PPM are recorded in PPM::ppd.