> From: Tony Edwardson > there are millions of computer in the City running Solaris 10 > and loads of people who want to use perl om these but > are held back but the ancient version pre-installed.
given you're doing something with PAR - this means you will get single-file executable with modern Perl running on Solaris, hence you do not need 5.8.4 support. > I am leaning towards imprementing a pure Perl version of > Arvhive::Zip ( at least, the functionality needed by PAR) and > then use the exising PAR module. I can congratulate you: Archive::Zip is already pure-perl