Michael G Schwern wrote:
> All these techniques have their strengths and weaknesses which I'm
> sure we're all aware of (and this is the wrong place to debate them).
> What I'm concerned is that Perl 6 has a clean, reliable, free and
> straightforward way(s) to use Perl without perl. How clean, reliable,
> free and straightforward? About the same order of magnitude as
> releasing a module is at the moment. If this involves a Makemaker
> style installation harness for programs, fine. If it merely involves
> better documentation of the process, that's fine, too.
>
> Just wanted to plant that nugget in everyone's brain. Perl without
> perl, make it work.
RFC 121 suggests this additional method of delivering a binary of
deliverme.pl
perl -o deliverme.o deliverme.pl
ld deliverme.o -o deliverme
Of course nobody discussed 121 much because it is somewhat of a pie-in-the-sky.
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