Boxes regulary have several complete Java installations, because an application comes with its own Java environment. That's how you should roll out a Perl based application as well (and believe me, there are more application that you'd think that work that way). Just deliver your application with the appropriate Perl versions/configuration/modules.

Indeed. When I was working on adding perl functionality to Sybase's OpenServer and XPserver I realized that there was no way to provide this in a coherent manner without shipping the whole perl interpreter compiled in a manner consistent with the functionality that I needed.

Michael