At 09:37 AM 6/2/01 -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>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.
True. OTOH, the Perl community has not moved nearly enough to satisfy the
demand that these vendors are recognizing and fulfilling. I don't see it
happening around perl 5, but hopefully it will be part of perl 6.
(I'm not disagreeing, just offering a tangential viewpoint.)
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
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