LPM: ActiveState's PerlApp

[John Soward]

Janine Ladick wrote:
> 
> > I found it had a few problems deciding what to
> > bundle into the .exe especially when you used several add-on modules.
> 
> ActiveState tells you to put requires inside begin blocks to signal
> PerlApp that the required files belong in the .exe, like:
> 
> BEGIN { require 'special.pl'; }
> 
> Seems ridiculous to me, given the meaning of the word 'require' in
> both English and Perl semantics.
> 
Exactly the problem, because it didn't handle things like 'require
TK.pl' if inside TK.pl there were further statements like 'require
TKmenu.pl', but this was a version from perhap April or May of 1999 so
perphaps they have perfected it since then.

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John Soward     
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