in reply to perl application installation

It seems like you have multiple layers of issues here, but your description of the app is not clear enough yet to lead to useful advice.

One layer: you developed on linux, and someone wants you to port to ms-windows?

Another layer: it's a web app that depends on Perl / CGI / CGI::Application, which is obviously available on your web server, and someone wants you to port it to other web servers where these things might not be available (yet)?

Yet another layer: the people who manage those other web servers might know nothing about (or are resistant to) using Perl?

If it were a stand-alone command-line app (as opposed to a web app), you could get over the linux/windows and perl-challenged recipients issues by using a windows box yourself to create an executable (*.exe) file from the perl script and pass that around. But I gather it's not this sort of app.

If the expected recipients are entrenched in asp.net and unwilling to accommodate Perl/CGI on their web servers, there's not much you can do about that -- they are basically saying "we don't want your app", and it's not your problem.

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Re^2: perl application installation
by arcnon (Monk) on Feb 12, 2006 at 16:27 UTC
    If the expected recipients are entrenched in asp.net and unwilling to accommodate Perl/CGI on their web servers, there's not much you can do about that -- they are basically saying "we don't want your app", and it's not your problem.

    If you only knew half of it you would cry or laugh like a baby. I know I do. Being employeed by one of the most well known colleges in the USA; does have its pros and cons. Politics being a con. My satilite campus is the bastard child/black sheep. When the VP of IS mandates from on high you just try to do your job and wait for him to steam roll the road blocks.

    until then I will attempt to get a windows server box up and figure out how to authenticate off the active directory.

    thanks brian this is a step in the right direction.