Re: Improving speed of par app startup

2007-11-28 Thread Roderich Schupp
On Nov 27, 2007 11:05 PM, Scott Stanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steffen Mueller wrote: That's actually a good idea: Avoiding dll file name clashes using a directory for each external (non-perl-module) dll. Currently, we extract the external dlls under their original name, IIRC.

Re: Improving speed of par app startup

2007-11-28 Thread Dr.Ruud
Scott Stanton schreef: It seems like Windows is very bad at creating lots of small files Which Windows version? Anti-virus involved? -- Affijn, Ruud Gewoon is een tijger.

RE: Improving speed of par app startup

2007-11-28 Thread Scott Stanton
The intent isn't to avoid name clashes within a single application, it's to avoid version clashes across applications with a shared cache directory. Instead of creating a separate cache-sum directory for every application, you can share a single cache directory as long as files are given

RE: Improving speed of par app startup

2007-11-28 Thread Scott Stanton
I've seen slow behavior on Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2003. My machine has the Trend Micro anti-virus client running on it. I've tried disabling the anti-virus software and it definitely speeds things up, although it's still quite a bit slower than Linux. Unfortunately telling our users that

Re: Improving speed of par app startup

2007-11-28 Thread Roderich Schupp
On Nov 28, 2007 5:42 PM, Scott Stanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The intent isn't to avoid name clashes within a single application, it's to avoid version clashes across applications with a shared cache directory. Instead of creating a separate cache-sum directory for every application, you

RE: Improving speed of par app startup

2007-11-28 Thread Scott Stanton
I'm trying to ship a self contained application to our customers. We are not allowed to dictate to the customer what versions of perl and installed packages they may have on their machine outside of our installation directory. They may not even have an installed perl. We certainly can't rely on

PAR::Packer build error on OSX 10.5

2007-11-28 Thread Alex Dodge
Hello. I'm having difficulty building PAR::Packer. I'm running OSX 10.5. I've downloaded the svn from http://svn.openfoundry.org/par/PAR-Packer/trunk/ and am trying to compile. However, I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Install/Sources/par-packer $ make include

Re: Improving speed of par app startup

2007-11-28 Thread Roderich Schupp
On Nov 28, 2007 6:39 PM, Scott Stanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to ship a self contained application to our customers. We are not allowed to dictate to the customer what versions of perl and installed packages they may have on their machine outside of our installation directory.

RE: Improving speed of par app startup

2007-11-28 Thread Scott Stanton
Well, sort of. I need a solution that is portable across Solaris, Linux, Windows, MacOSX, HP-UX, etc. with minimal fuss. A pp app gives me portability and simplicity of installation (i.e. no installation required). The user can simply copy the binaries anywhere they like and it just works. I