Re: [MacPerl] OSA Extention for PERL

[Roger Espinosa <roger@umich.edu>]

Strider writes on 8/8/97 (around 11:13 AM -0500):
>
> One of the most major setbacks of macintosh-based perl is that scripts
> can't just be distributed, like they can in UNIX. You also need the
> application, libraries, etc. If you make a standalone, it's huge- over 1
> meg. The perl script itself might only be 5k.
>

Ah ... you still need to have the correct version of perl and all required
libraries on UNIX if you're going to use someone's script. UNIX, perhaps,
makes the installation and packaging of this somewhat simpler, but if you
don't have the infrastructure ready on your machine, you're out of luck.

(As evidenced by the sad pleas on comp.lang.perl.misc of people trying to
get modern scripts working with the perl.4036 they're stuck with.)

And using the Compiler ... well, you're talking huge :-)

Roger



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