The fact that you'll be able to do that in Perl6 excites me. One of the things I use with the existing Perl5 unfortunately at times, is commercial software which compiles Perl code into various Microsoft formats: services, system tray icons, dll's and executables.
That proved to be extremely valuable to me when I was thrown the responsibility of designing implementing and maintaining an Active Directory environment. I've been writing Perl for years, and truly did not want to learn to code MS's way. I liked Perl. I think that it would be truly a valuable thing to have the ability to distribute Perl as executable binaries, completely stand alone and independance from the need of module installation on the client side. Especially with the way things are going in the market place, if we can truly get cross-platform compiles that would be in the words of a tru comedian, "Dyno--mite". Perl saves me from proprietaries *sic* on a daily basis. Its easy for me to pay for a commercial product to compile Perl5 into "executable modules" i release for system changes via Group Policies etc. I just wish I didn't have to pay for that commercial product to help me love Perl. -I On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 18:36 -0400, Chas Owens wrote: > On 6/22/07, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 22 June 2007 11:07:35 Chas Owens wrote: > > > > > Please, god, no. Or at least make two distributions: Bare Perl 6 and > > > Perl 6. Many companies have a "Only Core Perl" policy. They refuse > > > to install CPAN modules because "We don't trust them". > > > > I think of this the same way I think of "Do not drink even if you mix with > > beer" labels on bleach bottles. Stupid people often remove their genes from > > the pool. We should not discourage stupid business practices from doing the > > same. > > > > -- c > > > > I still need to earn a paycheck, and I would rather do it with Perl > than with Java. Fighting my customers stupidity, instead of working > around it, is a good way to stop earning my paycheck. But, as Jerry > pointed out, it will be a lot easier to hide module usage in Perl 6. > Get a code review sign off from people who aren't idiots, compile it > all to bytecode, and hand off the binary file to the schmucks who are > the problem.
