On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 20:02:33 +0100, "bubnikv ." <bubn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Frankly I don't like the 'niceness' of the PAR packer at all. Behind the > scenes it unpacks the content of the archive somewhere, where it is > cached. So if you install the application into a system install, then > there will be a copy created for each and every user, who ever starts > your application. I consider this a trade-off between efficiency and simplicity. I use pp packaged binaries to distribute to simple (read: Windows) end users that do not have the knowledge and skills to perform a decent Perl installation, add modules, and so on. Before I started packaging (first Cava, now PAR+pp) I spent far too much time and energy helping these users to solve system and installation problems. But I agree fullheartly that it would be much nicer to have installable packages. Unfortunately, there are no tools for that. -- Johan
