On 04/05/2013 11:21 AM, Roderich Schupp wrote: > 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).
Isn't this what PPM tried to do? PPM was also cross-platform, even if usage on non-Windows platforms was AFAIK very low. -- Cosimo
