Hi

I need to deploy Win32 Perl apps to an internal secure LAN.

The apps employ in-house modules, ppm-installed modules, and CPAN-installed modules. It is hard keeping all the machines up-to-date. I need some sort of wrapper if released locally, or a good way to run the code from the server.

I'd also prefer minor obfu of the source -- not for security (yep yep I know 'security thru obfuscation' is bogus) but rather to keep non-developer users from poking around in the code. (Rudimentary door locks sometimes make sense as they keep honest folks honest -- determined bad folks can break in to all but the most secure buildings regardless. As long as the homeowner knows the strengths and weaknesses of their locks...)

PAR sounded great -- offering both the much-needed wrapper aspect and the desired-but-not-critical mild obfu aspect -- but I've had trouble getting PAR working reliably under WinXP.

Making PAR work involved setting the "run mode" to win95 -- but this could not be done unless the apps were on the local drive; if on the server, XP wouldn't allow me to set the runmode. And if done on each client, I couldn't figure out how to set the mode via script, and the point-and-click machine-by-machine script-by-script was unacceptable.

Anyone have other suggestions?

Thanks

rkg

In reply to WinXP: App wrapping, PAR, Mild "Security" by rkg

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