Hello Perl Monks. We are developing an application using Perl, for which we need to create an installer targeting Windows and Mac OS. I was experimenting with PAR::Packer and with Cava. The Cava installer does roughly what I would expect, but as far as I am known the Cava installer only works with the Citrus Perl on MacOS and the Citrus Perl was abandoned couple of years ago. On the contrary, PAR::Packer works with the up to date Perl distributions. Now there is an inconvenience of the PAR::Packer. It decompresses into a temp directory on startup. To distribute an application by an installer this way does not make much sens. In case of an executable produced by the PAR::Packer, most of the code of a larger Perl application is being kept on the hard drive twice: Once inside the PAR archive, second time in the temp cache. Is there a way to reduce the redundancy? I would like to install the temp cache with my installer and remove the already decompressed files from the PAR archive. Thanks, Vojtech

In reply to PAR::Packer to create an application without a decompression into temp? by bubnikv

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