I dont think the installer issue is relevant. The issue is can you run unsigned native code at all? WOA no http://www.osnews.com/story/25935/Mozilla_Google_voice_concern_over_Windows_8_browser_restrictions. OSX, 1 version from being totally banned, http://www.osnews.com/story/25619/Mac_OS_X_10_8_restricted_to_App_Store_signed_apps_by_default. Some predict Windows 9 Desktop will not allow unsigned code, http://arizday.blogspot.com/2012/04/facts-of-windows-9-so-far.html. I'm predicting all Windows native code will be dropped this decade, Microsoft has had a pure CIL, no machine code OS for years, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_%28operating_system%29. I remember 10 years ago, Apple did something identical with Darwin. Darwin from day 1 ran on Intel 32 bit and PowerPC, and I was thinking to myself in 2001/2002, Apple must be planning to go to Intel since day one and drop their proprietary processors/platform. Fast forward 4 years, and Apple declares PowerPC dead and switches to Intel x64. Look, these corporations wouldn't be investing in the research for philanthropy. These are their current plans. Your only hope is someone writing a x86 virtual machine in pure Java/"bytecode language of the day" emulating address space in a large string. I better get started on rewriting the Perl 5 interp in C#, or javascript. Who wants to help?

In reply to Re^2: Perl and Windows 7 by bulk88
in thread Perl and Windows 7 by CountZero

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