Define "self-contained item". You mean, a single binary? A single package? A directory tree?

Software packages to be self-contained, including vehicles to run their language are rather common. Over the decades, I've installed packages that carry their own Java, Python, whatever environment, and I've delivered software that included a complete Perl environment as well. Delivering Perl with your product solves so many problems - no mysterious problems you can't replicate in the office because your customer uses the version of Perl you support, but he got the CDs of his vendor in week X, and that's when build ZZZZ was on the CD and that version happens to contain a bug - one not present inbuild ZZZZ-1 and fixed in build ZZZZ+1.

I prefer software packages to be self-sufficient as much as possible. I don't want to have to upgrade my javascript environment when I upgrade my browser (with the effect my other browser no longer works) - no, when I upgrade my browser, I expect it to come with javascript. And ideally, with Perl and Java and Rexx and Python, and whatever else it needs. I don't mind the discspace. 400 Gb drives are common, a few extra Perl installations on a box isn't going to hurt.

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In reply to Re: Perl Scripts on systems without perl environments. by Perl Mouse
in thread Perl Scripts on systems without perl environments. by SkipHuffman

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