Re: [MacPerl] Making small scripts

[Strider <Strider@baka.com>]

[snip]

>Is there any way to make MacPerl runtime versions that are under a meg,
>or under 500K, or even lower than that?

It would be nice, but unfortunately, only sorta. There are only three
things you can really do-
1) Save the programs as droplets or just regular scripts [that is, the text
source code] and save (or have a link to) MacPerl for download on your
page. That way, the scripts are about 5k apiece, and people get access to
MacPerl
2) Wait for the pl->c program everyone's been asking for
3) Write said program yourself. =)

The reason for this is that perl itself is a pretty big language, and there
has to be support for all of it (because of the 'eval' command, among other
things). Because it's interpreted, it requires the whole language for each
script- that's why PERL exists on almost every unix machine on the planet.
=)

- Strider




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