No, can't say I had - Looks like a way of bundling a bunch of files into a single perl script, which unpacks itself (like a self extracting archive), yes?

Actually unpacking the files onto the file system isn't a big issue for me, I guess I'm more concerned with finding an easy way to work out (and ideally build) the files which need packing.

Maybe an example...

Say I want to ship Archive::Zip along with my app. From the readme I find that it requires Compress::Zlib, which then appears to require the IO::Compress::Gzip, IO::Uncompress::Gunzip, Compress::Raw::Zlib and so on.

What I'd like, is a way to build all the dependencies in one hit, so I can bundle up the result, but I'm worried that just using MCPAN with something like PREFIX=/tmp/matts_new_build_area would skip Compress::Raw::Zlib if that happened to be installed locally on the box.

Hopefully that makes the issue I'm running into a little clearer.

Thanks, Matt Sheppard

In reply to Re: par by mattsheppard
in thread Bundling perl modules with a larger system by mattsheppard

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