Re: Perl Module Stripping
by CountZero (Bishop) on Apr 19, 2006 at 21:31 UTC
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Thanks, I think I'll try that alongside the pp and PAR software.
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Re: Perl Module Stripping
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Apr 19, 2006 at 21:47 UTC
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You may also want to look at perltidy. Specifically, perltidy -mangle
My criteria for good software:
- Does it work?
- Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?
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Thanks! perltidy -mangle -dac did the trick nicely.
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Re: Perl Module Stripping
by marto (Cardinal) on Apr 19, 2006 at 21:22 UTC
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Hi Justin_BSI,
Perhaps I am not understanding your situation totally.
Have you seen PAR (or the bundled pp script) ? You could use it to package your scripts and the modules they use into an standalone app.
Hope this helps.
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I appreciate the link, but we are (unfortunately) a Win32 house and I highly doubt I can convince my boss to let me have a Linux or BSD machine here.
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Hi Justin_BSI,
Take a look at the documentation, this solution will work for a Windows environment and build stand alone executables (exe files) out of your scripts and their dependant modules. You can install PAR using PPM. There is also a PAR tutorial you can read should you need some help.
Hope this helps.
Martin
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Re: Perl Module Stripping
by davido (Cardinal) on Apr 19, 2006 at 21:52 UTC
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There's no possibility of using a CDROM, DVD, USB flash-rom keychain drive, USB external hard drive, or at least a zip250? It's 2006 here already. I haven't touched a floppy in years because they haven't kept up with the need for portable storage space. There are many alternatives, unless of course, the target systems don't support any of those alternatives. YMMV.
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Re: Perl Module Stripping
by gawatkins (Monsignor) on Apr 20, 2006 at 02:47 UTC
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Using a Win98 startup disk as an example, you could compress your disk contents and then uncompress them into a ramdrive when loaded. I used to do this with my files when I was programming c++ in college, it was much faster than accessing straight from the floppy disk.
Thanks,
Greg W.
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Re: Perl Module Stripping
by eric256 (Parson) on Apr 19, 2006 at 22:02 UTC
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Back when I was a Mac technician I used to gloat to my PC technician friends about how I could go to any Mac site with just an external scsi drive and a few cables. They used to have a second briefcase just for boot floppies and installer floppy sets.
Surely these days there's nothing that doesn't work with a USB 1.1 thumbdrive? Of course some organisations lock down the system so you can't use removable mass storage (and floppies are certainly not mass anything).
If you really only have access to a floppy drive, you could try something like the Sandisk Smartmedia Reader Flashpath Floppy Adapter or the Sony Memory Stick 3.5" flopppy adapter and get access to larger storage via a floppy drive. I would imagine that performance should be at least no slower than a regular floppy.
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I remember working with 8" floppies on a Wang machine back in the '80s. Did they ever make them bigger than that?
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<joke>Great, this is Justin_BSI's first post here and you start talking about the size of your Wang</joke>
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Yes, IBM had a 12" version.
Well I recall wokring on CP/M and MP/M machines and Intel development systems that all had 8" drives. Initially Shugart single sided drives, but as time went on, double sided, double density, high density and half-height drives became common. Of course once the IBM-PC popularised 5 1/4" drives it was all over for the 8" types.
jdtoronto
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Re: Perl Module Stripping
by stonecolddevin (Parson) on Apr 20, 2006 at 04:53 UTC
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whoa...this node is a little to risque for me...;-)
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