in reply to Packaging Perl Programs (is) Painful

A solution which worked for me was to install Perl (AS or strawberry) on a company-wide shared drive (our infamous "R"-drive), put the Perl-executables in everyone's path, associate the .pl extension with this "shared" Perl and then put the perl-scripts in a folder on the shared drive.

Everyone can now run these perl-scripts, by double-clicking on the perl files.

Of course, start-up time is terrible since everything, including the perl-executable, all modules, dlls, ... must be fetched over a network link (but you save the unpacking and local installing, so there is some speed improvement). However, once started, speed is as usual.

Update: I see that BrowserUK had the same idea (Re: Packaging Perl Programs (is) Painful). Obviously, great minds think alike! ;-)

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