Re5: perl2exe Evaluation Message Avoider

Yes for PerlApp, no for PerlSvc, but as I've said before there are plenty of free utilities to let you wrap whatever the heck you want as a service.

PerlApp and perl2exe are pretty indistinguishable in my experience save three things:

Indy builds perl2exe on his machine with a really weird setup (think perl -V) and this can potentially bite you

perl2exe does some nasty stuff in the name of "DWIM" (at least for those not doing complex things). For example there is no way to get a runtime use, eval "use Foo"; does not work.

The perl2exe license gets tied to a username and must be run by that user.

-- perl -pe "s/\b;([st])/'\1/mg"

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Re: Re5: perl2exe Evaluation Message Avoider by drewbie (Chaplain) on Mar 14, 2002 at 21:01 UTC
The perl2exe license gets tied to a username and must be run by that user. UGH! Talk about a very restrictive license! Well, needless to say I'll never use perl2exe. I'd much rather use the free tools, or pay ActiveState. I don't mind paying for commercial software that works and gives me a net benefit. But free is always good too. :-)	[reply]