On Nov 28, 2006, at 8:41 AM, Steffen Mueller wrote:
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Enough introduction. The solution would be to split PAR into a
distribution for loading .par's and one for packaging. (I.e. the rest)
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I strongly support this idea! I'd even go so far as to say a 1.0 of
PAR.pm should be in Perl 5.10 core (but not Par::Packer). That would
make it easy to distribute .par bundles without executable headers
for OSes where Perl is known to be pre-installed (I'm thinking ahead
to the possibility that Apple's 10.6 will include Perl 5.10).
I could then see .par superseding .ppm as the standard mechanism for
distributing pre-built packages to end users lacking compilers.
Chris
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