Re: [MacPerl] Installing on Users' Macs

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

On Sat, 5 Dec 1998 08:06:17 -0500, Chris Nandor wrote:
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>At 04.34 -0500 1998.12.05, Bart Lateur wrote:
>>So, what I would prefer, is that for installing a MacPerl applet, the
>>installer would only check for the libraries that are necessary for this
>>particular script, and install them if not found. Call it "incremental
>>installation", if you like. I do. :-)
>
>That seems like it is creating more problems than it could possibly
>alleviate.  They would have to run the installer each time they get a new
>Perl script.  This certainly is not the Mac way.

Nor is it the Perl way. The Artistic license may permit this, but the GPL
doesn't. Imagine the traffic we would get when people tried scripts from
J. Random Hacker's book or web site and they didn't work because something
in core Perl was missing. And, of course, we would never get the author's
of scripts/modules to provide special MacPerl installers, since the vast
majority don't use MacPerl.

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