I have used the pp/par combination for Perl before. It is pretty straight forward to convert an existing perl script into a stand alone windows executable. Both the Activestate licence and the Perl Artistic licence allow for embedding a script and perl interpreter together and distributing the result. The current perl script(s) used for the R package build package could easily be converted to a 'stand alone' windows executable and be distributed with Rtools for those who do not want to install Perl themselves. The only drawback is that even a "Hello World" script will result in over a meg sized executable (due to the perl interpreter being included).
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Gabor Grothendieck Sent: Fri 5/4/2007 11:55 AM To: Doran, Harold Cc: [email protected]; Duncan Murdoch Subject: Re: [R] [SPAM] - Re: R package development in windows - BayesianFilter detected spam Just googling I found this: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=186402 On 5/4/07, Doran, Harold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The best, of course, would be to get rid of Perl altogether. > > In Python, it is possible to make standalone executables. Is it possible > to also do this in Perl, then one could eliminate a perl install. Or, is > it possible to use Python to accomplish what perl is currently doing? I > may be getting in over my head here since I really don't know what perl > is doing under the hood. > > Harold > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
