Great post, this is may opinion, too. But ...

I'm not sure what policy allows your friend to copy files but not "install" Perl

Well, our real life is the following:
We design/support a rather big application for a PC/Mainframe environment and after the switch from OS/2 to Windoze we introduced perl to configure test environment for the different development stages, databases, reproduction of bugs in production environment for different customers etc. Parts are running on a Citrix server and that has to be a closed box. It is easy to mess up things by accident, especially if the administrating people still have some homework left to do.

As the developers do not need perl (poor guys) it was decided to keep the perl runtime off the server and the developers to minimize the risk.

In reply to Re: (tye) Win32 executable AS PerlApp, perl2exe, perlcc, ?? by Brutha
in thread Win32 executable AS PerlApp, perl2exe, perlcc, ?? by traveler

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