On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:35:18PM +0100, Paul Marquess wrote:
> You'll have to forgive me, but I don't know what PAR is.

Oh.  See http://par.perl.org/.  It does what JAR does for Java, and
does what PerlApp/Perl2Exe did for perl, and is also an alternative
to PPM.

> That said, it might be easier if I just bundled zlib with Compress::Zlib and
> made it default to building its own personal copy of zlib - rather that
> defaulting to using a pre-installed version of zlib as it does at the
> moment. Bundling zlib with Compress::Zlib has been on my list for a while
> now.

That will be most excellent, as I can simply depend on a future version of
Compress::Zlib and be sure that it will be statically linked.

I'm aware that Jos Boumans has started doing something like that, and
has produced a proof-of-concept release:

    http://wagner.elixus.org/~autrijus/Alien-Zlib-0.01.tar.gz

It may or may not help. :-)

Thanks,
/Autrijus/

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