Looking for a Perl packager/compiler/installer
Simon Taylor
simon at unisolve.com.au
Wed Jun 12 18:46:24 CDT 2002
Graeme,
> I would still be interested in hearing about alternatives or anyone's war
> stories about PerlDev/PerlApp.
We've used ActiveState's Perl devKit to produce stand-alone executables for
the same reasons that interest you. We had a client who wanted to be able to
install a single executable for demonstration purposes rather that going to
the "trouble" of downloading ActiveState Perl on each new machine.
At the time, (mid last year), we were unable to produce a completely
stand-alone executable, and we had to resort to shipping the exe file with a
few miscellaneous perl files of our own. But I suspect that given more time,
we could have resolved this issue.
It bothered me a little bit that we were suddenly shipping code that some
interested end-user couldn't *inspect*, and I felt an attack of the Richard
Stallman's coming on ;-), so I resolved that if we ever had to do this in
future, I would include a README file (or a hyperlink in the case of a
perl/tk app), showing where the source code inside the exe file could be
found.....
Regards,
Simon Taylor
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