While you'll need a parrot install as well as the bytecode file, that's still a darned sight better than what we have now with perl, where it's "Install perl. Install these X modules from CPAN, install this whole dir tree of stuff for my app."

End deployment should be as simple as possible. A single file deployment is best, but barring that a persistent environment (like the JVM or parrot) that doesn't need to change with a single file for the app's not bad either.

And I am taking a shot at being able to build a single-file combined interpreter and bytecode app, though it might be large... :)