Thanks Roderich.
Given the brittleness I'll aim for a separate sub that would be
explicitly called by the packed script.
Now to find the time to do it...
Regards,
Shawn.
On 17/12/2014 0:04, Roderich Schupp wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Shawn Laffan
<shawn.laf...@unsw.edu.au <mailto:shawn.laf...@unsw.edu.au>> wrote:
What I'm thinking of is some way for a PAR executable to detect if
extra files packed using -a are missing, and then unpack them.
Such a check would defeat the "if the cache area exists, skip
extracting stuff" logic, so you'll
take a hit when starting up. Also there's a (somewhat crude) lock
against concurrent
unpacking of the cache area that you have to keep in mind.
But most of all: the code base is very brittle and prone to breaking
stuff at a distance,
hence I myself won't touch certain parts unless it's absolutely
necessary.
But if you want to try your hand at hacking: the code that extracts
all packed files
(excpet DLLs) into <cache area>/inc is sub _extract_inc in PAR.pm
Cheers, Roderich
