On Nov 27, 2008, at 7:31 AM, Roderich Schupp wrote:
Have any other users of PAR ever used it in an embedded environment ?
Not that I'm aware of (just grepped the PAR mailing list).
At my employer we have an embedded perl interpreter in our product,
and we
use a PAR-ish method of obfuscating our code (it's not derived from
the PAR
codebase, but it has similar concepts, and includes encrypting the
archive
file that's distributed so customers can't examine our code).
Unfortunately, our method doesn't involve bundling all the CPAN modules
necessary for extracting the archive, so our product also installs a lib
directory with all the CPAN modules it needs.
I can't go into more detail, partially because my employer considers
this
proprietary technology and they'd be upset if I talked about it in other
than very broad terms, but mostly because I don't support our PAR-ish
code
delivery mechanism, I'm just a consumer OF it, so I've never learned all
the little tricks we've done to get it to work.
I'm just saying it seems that it's _possible_ to use PAR in an embedded
environment as long as you externally provide the modules needed.
-packy
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