If you compile your Perl code to CLR bytecode (or whatever), how does it handle eval STRING? Does it really work like that?

I think the best general solution to the deployment/distribution problem is PAR/PerlApp/perl2exe + possibly a decent installer.

For the specific problem of wedging Perl into a .NET environment, sure. But won't the C# people have problems with that? I think you'd better find a darn useful solution on CPAN to get away with it, and they'll still try to re-implement it after you solved the problem with an existing module.

/J