[MacPerl] Installing on Users' Macs

[aml@world.std.com (Andrew M. Langmead)]

Matthew Langford <langfml [at] eng [dot] auburn [dot] edu> writes:

>If MacPerl is already present, what then?  (Is there an easy way to
>determine this, and can it also determine the presence/version of
>modules?) 

What if most of the MacPerl application (except for the IDE) was made
into a shared library that could exist in the extentions folder, and
the standard modules were put in the preferences folder.

Any perl program that was meant to be distributed and used some sort
of "installer" program could check if the shared library was present
before installing, bypassing it if it was present, and check for its
needed modules. The user (who will get perl without the IDE) won't
have a strange application that they don't think they need.

-- 
Andrew Langmead

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