On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Tony Edwardson <t...@edwardson.co.uk> wrote: > I am trying to address this by providing a native perl mechanism which will > work on any OS which you can just put somewhere and access it via PERL5LIB, > then download whatever par files you want and it just works
But if the stuff in "whatever" par files has XS parts it CAN'T JUST WORK. You would have to provide this stuff anyay compiled for whatever the target system uses (OS, Perl version etc). I.e. unless you are willing to provide a pure-Perl version for any useful CPAN using XS (not that people have tried, but this is crazy and a severe case of NIH.) Providing the dependencies of the existing PAR is small change compared to that (and you can do that already with PAR). Perl must move FORWARD if it wants to stay alive. Adding stuff for people that are stuck at Perl 5.8 is moving BACKWARD. If banks treat their Solaris und Linux boxen like mainframes we shouldn't go back to Cobol to placate them :) Cheers, Roderich
