Re^2: Bundles and offline installation issues

Thanks Martin. I really haven't looked at other options. I will check that out but here are my 2 important goals:

1. I am naturally inclined towards Bundle. Used by CPAN and looks super simple. Just list the names of the packages you want and thats is all to it.

2. packaging should work for both windows & unix. I am assuming pp is different from ppm (Activestate). ppm is only good for windows.

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Re^3: Bundles and offline installation issues by marto (Cardinal) on Sep 16, 2009 at 14:35 UTC
PPM is a package mangement tool, pp is an packaging tool. You could use it to make a single stand alone executable which will contain all of your modules (their prerequisites and so on) that your application needs, this executable can be run on machines that don't have Perl installed, so you wouldn't have to install/maintain a distribution of Perl on each machine you wanted to run it on, or worry about how you would get all of the modules you need installed on each target machine. So in theory you could develop your application, package it using pp (once for Linux, once for windows) and distribute the executable. If I was in your position I would opt for packaging up the application, rather than have to support Perl (ensuring all of the modules you require are installed) on X number of machines which are 'offline'. Martin	[reply]

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Re^3: Bundles and offline installation issues
by marto (Cardinal) on Sep 16, 2009 at 14:35 UTC

PPM is a package mangement tool, pp is an packaging tool. You could use it to make a single stand alone executable which will contain all of your modules (their prerequisites and so on) that your application needs, this executable can be run on machines that don't have Perl installed, so you wouldn't have to install/maintain a distribution of Perl on each machine you wanted to run it on, or worry about how you would get all of the modules you need installed on each target machine.

So in theory you could develop your application, package it using pp (once for Linux, once for windows) and distribute the executable.

If I was in your position I would opt for packaging up the application, rather than have to support Perl (ensuring all of the modules you require are installed) on X number of machines which are 'offline'.

Martin

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