in reply to Installer for Perl Application

Other, eminently sensible suggestions aside, if you have the PDK (Perl Development Kit), you can generate a self-contained 'binary' from your application using the PerlApp tool - in that way avoiding the requirement to deliver and install a perl environment to your intending user.

A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))

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Re^2: Installer for Perl Application
by wa4otj (Beadle) on Jul 10, 2009 at 19:43 UTC
    As with the Perl2exe suggestion, this is the wrong direction. I WANT to put the Perl environment on the user's PC, so that I can lead them into the opportunity to tinker and learn. I just want to do so with minimum fuss and bother for that initial setup.

    My hidden motive here is to seed the user base with Perl and working applications and encouragement to tinker, in the hopes that one day a few of them will grow into Perl enthusiasts. Just handing a working EXE to them, with all the "bones" carefully hidden away defeats the purpose. I want to give them the whole Perl Magic, and make it easily accessible to anyone who cares to look under the hood.

    Thanks, Nat

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      In which case, why not try Strawberry perl - it's free, far simpler and what's more, far more flexible since it comes bundled with a C compiler and make.

      A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))
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        Thanks for the suggestion of Strawberry Perl. I am tinkering with it now, and I must say I am impressed. It seems like an excellent alternative to ActiveState.

        However, that still seems off-topic to my original quest, i.e. getting a newbie to Perl up and running with the Perl environment and a moderately complex Perl application with minimal fuss.

        Thanks to all for the help.

        Nat

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