On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 09:44:54PM -0400, John Siracusa wrote: > Finally, platform independent execution of any packaged or precompiled > single file will *require* cooperation (core support) from the perl > executable itself. PAR is neat, but it doesn't even match up that well with > JAR, which allows the same file to work everywhere Java works. I just don't
I'm confused here - specifically what can cause a PAR file not to run anywhere? The only reason I can think of is that it contains bundled up platform-specific shared libraries. Which means non-core C code. As long as perl lets you link in C code it's going to have to be pre-compiled for your platform. I can't see how JAR could avoid this problem if JAR were used for anything other than pure Java bytecode. Nicholas Clark
