Hi Roderich,
first, I would like to thank you for maintaining PAR!
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I just want to use PAR to bundle all dependencies to get a "portable"
Perl based Windows application, with dedicated unpacking instead of the
automatic "runtime" unpacking.
Can you elaborate on what you are trying to achieve?
I want to avoid the automatic unpacking, especially below the temp
directory. BTW, I'm using Windows.
Unpacking and running executables in temp is considered suspicious by AV
products, and it can be a security risk: Consider a widespread program
like ExifTool: Malware can easily find the runtime files and infect them
without elevated rights.
The Windows standards suggest to make exectuables write protected.
Unpacking the runtime files in a dedicated step seems to be a natural
solution to me. That's how most (portable) programs are "installed".
A PAR archive seems to contain (nearly?) everything to run the program
(Perl interpreter, libraries, DLLs etc.) so I think it would be great if
I just could unpack it to a directory of my choice and run the
application directly from there.
Oliver
