> From: Roderich Schupp > On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Tony Edwardson wrote: > > > For this to work, I need to be able to create a native perl > module (without > > dependency on any os specific modules or shared libraries) > which is able to > > use these par files. > > Unfortunately, the PAR module relies on Archive::Zip which > in turn needs the > > Compress::Raw::Zlib module which are OS specific needing a compiler. > > I would like to create a PAR::Lite module which performs a > subset of the PAR > > functionality using something like Compress::Zlib::Perl to > just handle using > > PAR files as an additional resource of CPAN modules. > > That's a bogus argument. AFAIK any recent Perl distribution > (on Windows) > already includes Archive::Zip and its dependencies.
to say more, perl core contains "Compress::Zlib" for long time already (hence - any distribution surely has it too) and Archive::Zip is pure-perl, which (mostly) depends on Compress::Zlib, so even if distribution lacks Archive::Zip - C compiler is not needed to install Archive::Zip... Still, there is little need for pure-perl PAR. > > People on the list might correct me, but I think the major use of the > PAR family of modules is not to create jar-like archives, but > to create > standalone executables. However there is a pearl in idea to have a number of feature-stuffed PAR files and use these like JARs... In Tcl/TK there are "kit"s and these are really worth looking at, for example there is a file "tkgamepack.kit" which is 2.7Mb in size and contains some 90+ little games.... :o There are other interesting applications as single-file KIT. very impressive. these kit-s are executed with an executable file of some 3Mb - no UNZIP into temporaries, just assoziate ".kit" extension with this executable, and you're done.
