I used the tool ppm to install several Perl modules (i.e. PPD files):
PPM> query
Alien-wxWidgets [0.52 ] Developer version of wxWidgets binaries
Class-Load [0.08 ] a working (require "Class::Name") and more
Class-Singleton [1.4 ] Base class for creating singleton objects
DBI [1.616 ] Database independent interface for Perl
Data-Dumper [2.126 ] stringified perl data structures, suitable for
both printing and C<eval>
DateTime [0.70 ] A date and time object
DateTime-Locale [0.45 ] Localization support for DateTime.pm
DateTime-TimeZone [1.39 ] Time zone object base class and factory
File-chdir [0.1004 ] a more sensible way to change directories
Math-Round [0.06 ] Perl extension for rounding numbers
Params-Validate [1.00 ] Validate method/function parameters
Scalar-List-Utils [1.23 ] Common Scalar and List utility subroutines
TAP-Harness-JUnit [0.36 ] Generate JUnit compatible output from TAP results
UNIVERSAL-require [0.13 ] require() modules from a variable
Wx [0.99.0.1] Interface to the wxWidgets cross-platform GUI
toolkit
Wx-ActiveX [0.15 ]
Wx-Demo [0.13 ]
Wx-GLCanvas [0.09 ]
Wx-TreeListCtrl [0.13 ] interface to the Wx::TreeListCtrl class
PPM>
How can I programatically make a backup of the original PPD files that these Perl modules were installed from?
EDIT #1:
The PPM I'm using above is not using the activestate repos, these are the PPM repos that can provide pre-built PPD files for strawberry Perl.
This is an example of one of the PPM repos, http://www.wxperl.co.uk/repository/. This is the version of PPM that I'm using: http://search.cpan.org/~murray/PPM-2.1.9/bin/ppm.pl.
