I've been using macperl for a little while and was told that for applications on the desktop there are no shared libraries. So that if a make droplets for the app each includes about 2megs or so worth of perl stuff , thus after a few apps are added it becomes a real resource hog. But the other option is to use just the runtime environment, but I seem to recall the faq as saying the droplet was the way to go. So I guess I'm trying to say, is there a way to create several desktop apps and have them share resources to conserve machine utilitzation and stuff? I know this is probably in the book too. --thanks for any insights Mark -- Its reassuring to know that if you behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for you. ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch