Re^2: Shipping a Perl/Tk App

PAR takes care of all of the packaging issues. It even has packages a perl interpreter. As a result, the deliverable is a single executable that contains EVERYTHING. I don't see why you say it would be a problem. If you mean learning to program is Tk is difficult, then I would tend to disagree, because that's a relative statement. To some learning Java is more difficult that Tk

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Re^3: Shipping a Perl/Tk App by jpeg (Chaplain) on Jul 12, 2005 at 21:24 UTC
Can PAR deliver a single binary that will run on Mac OS, Windows, and any flavor of 'nix? That's how I interpreted tomazos' requirements. -- jpg	[reply]
Re^4: Shipping a Perl/Tk App by waswas-fng (Curate) on Jul 12, 2005 at 21:55 UTC
well, even if you look at the cough ton cough of java apps that are shipped out there many you will find still ship separate installers for each platform. This is because they either a) require a specific vendors or version of java vm, b) run native code anyways to work with native os functions, or c) are written in such a way that they must be tweaked to run on each platform. I see no difference packaging up 3 PAR bundles (solaris, windows, linux) and offering them based on the OS that you will be running on. -Waswas	[reply]
Re^4: Shipping a Perl/Tk App by tomazos (Deacon) on Jul 12, 2005 at 23:13 UTC
Well single binary would be nice, but I don't mind compiling multiple binaries. The important thing is that I want a single codebase, and that I am writing it in an easy-to-use rapid development environment (why I am trying to pick Perl/Tk). I have minimal time to spend on this side project, so every minute of my development time is at a premium. The requirements of the actual project should really be handled by a web server/browser/HTML/CSS/Javascript, but even the minimal stuff I want to do in terms of text editing/diffing and displaying a simple tree of data are way too hard for the browser implementation of CSS/HTML to handle in a way that is consistent across platforms - and believe me I tried. Browser support for CSS 2.1 is about an inconsistent 50%. Plus I enjoy writing code in Perl/Tk. I'll give PAR a shot. Andrew Tomazos \| andrew@tomazos.com \| www.tomazos.com	[reply]