I am a developer porting an application to OS X that includes some complex perl scripts. Because I do not presently have/know of a good solution for creating a reasonably-sized stand-alone perl application on Mac OS X (e.g. as is possible with ActiveState's perlapp on Windows), my application will use and depend on the perl that comes pre-installed on OS X.
Q1: How badly is this decision likely hurt me? (Some reading reveals that OS X already depends on its own perl installation, so if users screw it up they will have bigger problems than my app not working.) Q2: Is there in fact a good solution for bundling my scripts, a perl interpreter, and all required modules/libraries into a single app/bundle/whatever in such a way that I do not need to depend on the version provided by the OS? Q3: In my younger and foolish days (about three weeks ago), I munged the perl installation on my development machine (or rather, perl -MCPAN munged it for me). How can I get back the exact perl setup that comes preinstalled with OS X? I suppose I can wipe and reinstall the disk if necessary, but I imagine there is a better way. Thanks! Barry
