On 9/20/06, Chris Dolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sep 18, 2006, at 5:09 AM, Steffen Mueller wrote:
> a) link in C libzip to do the extraction. That way, parl wouldn't
> need any Perl at all just for the extraction of the .par
Just a small note: this would have the positive side effect of making
PAR binaries a little smaller, since the bootstrapper would be
smaller and more of the Perl content would be inside the .zip container.
Definitely, typically compression is better than 50% for the perl executable
(in case of a statically linked perl exe) or the perl DLL (eg 960K -> 370K
on Solaris or 790K -> 400K on Windows). Also it would make it
easier just to see what has been packed into the pp'ed executable -
"unzip -l" would tell the whole story.
Cheers, Roderich
