Hi Ed, Ed W wrote:
As the subject says: Is this project dead now? Where can I download a version...? http://par.perl.org seems to be dead at the moment and when I last looked it said something about a catastrophic failure..?
PAR has a large user base. I, for example, used it in a pretty large cross-platform project just a couple of months ago. As far as I know, PAR is the only free software that can package the interpreter, Perl scripts and modules as a binary executable. Since anything that rings the "portability" bell is pretty difficult to maintain, PAR cannot hide all of the associated problems from the user at all times. (But it does so pretty well.)
As far as I know, the original author, Autrijus Tang, has mostly moved on to other projects (pugs, etc), but given the large user base, PAR is most likely to continue being maintained.
Steffen
