[Melbourne-pm] Run Perl Script from HTML

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Thu Sep 24 17:16:57 PDT 2009


Instead of active state, consider strawberry Perl & par

Scott Penrose
http://scott.dd.com.au/


On 25/09/2009, at 8:10, Gerd Berner <gberner at intraspect.com.au> wrote:

> Hi Sam
>
> I'm looking to package it up using the development kit from  
> ActiveState.  My understanding is that by doing this you can create  
> a native installer without having Perl pre-installed on the target  
> system.  Does anyone have any comments or advice on that?
>
> I agree that Javascript would be a better solution, but I know a lot  
> more Perl than I do Javascript and I need to get this moving quickly.
>
> Thanks for your advice!
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Gerd
>
>
> On 25/09/2009, at 7:25 AM, Sam Watkins wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:19:11PM +1000, Gerd Berner wrote:
>>>  Requirements:
>>>  - Cannot assume that the receivers will have MS office (or else  
>>> they could
>>>  possibly use Excel or Access)
>>>  - There will be no Webserver available
>>>  - Needs to work on Windows, Linux, Mac
>>>  - cannot assume any particular web browser
>>
>> Perl is a lot heavier than a simple web server, can you ensure they  
>> will
>> have perl installed?
>>
>> I would suggest to do this in javascript, there are plenty of  
>> javascript
>> graphing libraries out there already.
>>
>> Sam
>
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