As I noted in Re: Making a GUI based Win32 app from Perl script. this program does solve the "how the heck do I package a perlscript for dumb users" problem quite elegantly.

I agree 100% that this is the way to get perl recognised.

My only slight worry is that, since popfile uses a lot of powerful perl networking modules, if some sneaky person were to manage to find a backdoor into popfile you'd be looking at some extremely capable zombies. I've been spending some time thinking about how best to ensure that the code is well behaved and to verify that the version installed is genuine. I suspect an MD5 hash of the various .pl files and directories is the way to go...

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