Thanks for the nice summary!

I toyed around with PAR yesterday. It has a lot of features but I had a few issues with it:

First, it extracts everything the first run to /tmp/par-$USER/cache-$GUID/. This makes the startup of the first run noticably slow. It doesn't share the cache with other users or even different version of the same binary. And of course, it seems inelligent? I thought the point of using zip is so that we can have a virtual filesystem and modules can be loaded on demand from it?

Second, filters didn't seem to work on modules added via -a/-A. Tried the -F option (as well as the -f, which works) with the Squish and Crypto filters. The modules extracted to the cache were all unfiltered. I might have to fiddle with it some more.

I'm going the FatPacker route. It seems far simpler and fits my need for now.

In reply to Re^2: FatPacker vs PAR by Anonymous Monk
in thread FatPacker vs PAR by Anonymous Monk

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