Re: [MacPerl] Perl without perl.

[Brian McNett <brianmc@telebyte.net>]

Mark Cantrell, <kamma@iname.com> wrote:

>When saving a file under macperl,  there is an option called 'save as
>runtime version'.  This will make the saved entity much larger than
>normal but the user won't need have macperl installed. 
>
>--Mark
>
>
>"Tony L. Svanstrom" wrote:
>> 
>> Let's say that a programmer were to write a program which he wants to
>> use plugins, to make it easy to write them he wants the main language
>> used to write them to be perl... How hard would this be to do if he at
>> the same time wants it to be invisible to the user in the sense that
>> they don't have to download MacPerl to make it work?

Even better is a little MacPerl droplet called "Runtime Builder".  It's 
on the MacPerl CD, and I'm not sure where else it's availalbe.  It's 
solves the problem of finding all the shared librarys and modules a 
MacPerl runtime uses and placing copies of them in a common location so 
the runtime can be run completely without MacPerl.

The caveat here is the same as above: runtimes are much larger than 
normal scripts.  Except sizes around 1.7Meg.  This really isn't that bad 
in these days of multi-gigabyte hard disks (and Macs without floppies).

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