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

[Tony Obermeit]

I remembering buying a copy of PerlApp about 3 years ago.  Does it allow 
that kind of bundling for cgi or mod_perl applications?

Tony

At 07:31 PM 20/08/2002 +1000, David Bussenschutt wrote:
>
>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.