[BNE-PM] What do you use Perl for?

[David Bussenschutt]

Ah, Packaging a perl app (and all  dependancies) into a single binary 
perhaps?   Well, that's easy..use PerlApp..it's .just not completely free. 
  I'm normally opposed to non-free products, but I gave this one a go out 
of necessity, and it's really good, and well supported (and not a bad 
price either).

PerlApp is part of the activestate Perl Developers Kit, and has versions 
for HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, and Windows
http://www.activestate.com/Products/Perl_Dev_Kit/

I bundle a couple of my perl Tk apps up into a single .exe each, and then 
corporately we use them on all the other non perl-ized Windose PC's. 

Internally it's not brain surgery at all, really quite 
simple....internally, it figures out all module dependancies at the source 
level, and then includes all of them, and the perl binary into one .exe 
file that extracts the modules/source into memory at runtime. 

I'm just a happy customer.

David.
(  P.S. sorry i didn't make it to the get-together...still at 
work...writing perl ;-)   )

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Derek Thomson <derek at wedgetail.com>
Sent by: owner-brisbane-pm-list at pm.org
20/08/2002 04:15 PM

 
        To:     Mike Bissett <paran01d at operamail.com>
        cc:     brisbane-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org
        Subject:        Re: [BNE-PM] What do you use Perl for?


Mike Bissett wrote:
> 
> This isnt a flame war its more like tennis, I count 2 
> games to 1 match point to Derek and perl :)) (i could be a 
> bit biased towards perl though). 

No, I don't think we've descended into flame war territory just yet. I'm 
genuinely interested in knowing, if I was asked to do a web application, 
why I shouldn't just use Perl. Some interesting reasons are coming out 
of the woodwork, like packaging.

--
D.