From: Autrijus Tang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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've just uploaded version 1.30 of Compress::Zlib to CPAN. I finally bit the bullet and included the zlib source with it. By default it build using its personal copy of zlib. I expect there will be a bit of work on some of the more obscure platforms before I'd class this as stable, so don't rely on it just yet. Paul
