merlyn, it does have one use. It makes programs easy to install. VB kicks Perl in this regard.

Yesterday we walked into a clients office and installed a VB front end to a database on his machine. It was so easy - CDROM in drive, double click on icon, click go. After a couple of tries, even the client could get it right. Now we can just send him the updates, and he can install them himself. He can even install the program on other machines.

I'm really beginning to envy windows programmers for that little trick. No screwing around downloading this, running that, resolving this error - it's just "disc in drive, double click". Perl could really benefit from something like that. Then we (the whole community) could distribute our programs as exe files that just get up and do their stuff without forcing the users to spend time and mental effort figuring out how to install it.

Something like that is valuable in an enterprise environment. I know all your other comments are correct, but something like Perl2exe helps when dealing with people who have to pause to wipe the drool off the mousepad.

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Jeremy
I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.