>>>>> "Nigel" == Nigel G Romeril <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Nigel> I do not have any direct experience of this, but I read in
Nigel> magazine that these Perl to exe interpreters embed the perl
Nigel> into the exe as plain text. The original code can be recovered
Nigel> by opening the exe in an editor and copying and pasting it into
Nigel> a script file that can then be run normally.
Yes, I think these "perl2exe" vendors are really doing the community a
disservice. They're merely "installation bundlers", not true
compilers (except in the sense of "compile" as "bringing together").
The runtime of the program is not improved, and the program is
trivially extracted from the binary, and what you end up with if you
install three of these things on the same program is a *LOT* of
redundant disk usage, instead of simply installing Perl once and then
the three scripts.
Perl2exe - just say no.
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