On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 04:17:07PM -0500, Morbus Iff wrote: > Hey all. Just wanted to report a success story with PAR. > I've long (since 2001) been using Perl2EXE to build > AmphetaDesk, a crossplatform RSS reader that has > been downloaded 100,000+ times.
Heya! I'm one of the 100,000+ users, and I'm very happy that you find PAR helpful. :-) > * I've yet to read or research into how to get > rid of that opening DOS window. In Perl2EXE, > I'd pass the -gui flag. "pp --gui" does it for you. > * Even though I can name the .exe with pp, the > exe is always called "par.exe" internally. This > worries me - if one of my non-knowledgeable end > users click on AmphetaDesk.exe, then get a firewall > warning that "par.exe" is trying to connect to the > Internet, that doesn't inspire confidence (but > rather paranoia about trojans). Hey, that's a great idea, to simply rename the par.exe to whatever name being passed to "pp -o" during packaging. I'll implement this right away for the next version. Thanks, /Autrijus/
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