I maintain a perl application - rsnapshot - which works on a vast number of platforms. Off the top of my head, I know we have users on Linux, *BSD, OS X, Solaris, Irix, HPUX and AIX, and I expect there's a few others too.

Our standard distribution is a tarball. We then use autoconf and make. Autoconf may be an utter swine, but it works, although if it had been my project from the start we'd use something else - probably a small perl script. Now, we deliberately avoid all third-party modules precisely because of problems that real users (as opposed to perl people) have with getting them to work. If we were to ever rely on someone elses module, we'd bundle it in the tarball, and install in a private .../lib directory.

I would consider PAR, except that from the docs it seems that I'd need to create a PAR package for each platform, on that platform. That, and PAR doesn't install on one of my main development machines.

In reply to Re: Application Distribution (modules, cpan, etc) by DrHyde
in thread Application Distribution (modules, cpan, etc) by jettero

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