On Monday, Mar 10, 2003, at 15:24 US/Pacific, Vicki Brown wrote: [..]
We will recommend this to the client, should he decide to go ahead and "port"[..]
the suite to Mac OS X or BSD. :-) His (current) packaging for Windoze is an
"obfuscated" compiled binary package containing all the necessary bits
including Perl itself... ala the Classic MacPerl "runtime" capability.
oh dear....
May I recommend that they work on cleaning up their 'build engine' a bit - since I have unpleasant memories of having to clean up 'multiple installs' of what would I guess, be perl4 for SunOs 4.X because the 'vendors' opted for this rather than 'test' for the existence of the required version of perl and supporting suite of appropriate 'perl libraries'.
If anything this is a part of why I strongly advocate that persons involved in the 'vendor supplied, vendor supported' portion of the process design towards installing with the vendor_site target in mind.
There are also ways, as have been noted here, to deliver one's foo.app that includes the distinction between the perl 5.6.1 version and perl5.8 by managing that IN the foo.app with the appropriate runtime modification to the PERL5LIB environmental variable as the application launches.
ciao drieux
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