On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 01:53:50AM +0100, oliver wrote: > Hi > > I was wondering if it really is nessacery to fully install perl into the > C drive soley for the purpose of installing the various applications. > > I'm not saying not to use perl, but is there no way to use perl from the > Z mapped drive? (I do know there might be some issues with perl not > beeing on the C:\ which I think can't be right. It's just not sane :) > but who knows. > > Primarly because I don't want all my users to have an active perl > install on their system. Also it's kind of dull to install 60mb worth of > software to be used for those 5 minutes of software install. > Automatically uninstalling afterwards also seems dumb. > > Secondly it becomes really useless afterwards, I mean, we have a network > share with a whole bunch of nice packages, but a simple doubleclick on a > bat file doesn't install the package. (Because of perl errors). > > My proposal would be to have perl live in z:\perl and have all scripts > use that version. The bat files include a 'header' file that set's > enviroment variables correctly so that perl can be run from Z:\perl. > > This would also make it possible to simply install a package by running > the script file for it.
I think the question is: When a patch is supplied, will it be excepted? > > oliver Happy New Year Geert Stappers
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