On approximately 10/28/2003 4:47 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Autrijus Tang:
I am jubilant to announce that PAR 0.76 has been uploaded to CPAN, with a bytecode-compiling filter, which finally brings us on par with Java's obscurability. ;-) It is also available at:
http://aut.dyndns.org/dist/PAR-0.76.tar.gz MD5 (PAR-0.76.tar.gz) = 44e2565cb30d063f0eefd2a7d6e17dff
People without a C compiler should also fetch the appropriate pre-built pardists from http://aut.dyndns.org/par/ -- currently only ActivePerl 5.6.1 and 5.8.0 for Win32 are available.
So I fetched the pre-built pardist as noted. Now what do I do with it?
Win2K, Perl 5.8.0 (ActiveState 805)
And I read all the tutorial slides, and the FAQ questions, and the PAR home page, including the section on precompiled CPAN distributions, which I assume this is.... without figuring out how to install it on my machine ... and that is specifically what I was looking for, as a new user. Of course, I learned some things along the way, I hope.
I note that it sort of looks like the directory structure somewhat mirrors what is found in c:\perl or c:\perl\site ... and could maybe be extracted to there using my favorite unzip program, PowerArchiver ... but is there a preference or requirement for putting it in one or the other of the above?
I note that the .par file references a /script directory and a /man1 directory, neither of which exist in either mentioned directory on my installation of Perl ... should these be moved elsewhere? Or is that indicative that a simple extract should be done elsewhere, instead of directly into one of the mentioned directories.
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