The option of using PAR to distribute perl apps on OS X came up on my
recent (slightly related) thread.  I just installed it, and so far it
seems to work quite well and easily.  The files it produces are
somewhat large, though:

% pp -e 'print "Hello, world.\n"'
% ./a.out
Hello, world.
% ls -l a.out
-rwxr-xr-x  1 bjaspan  staff  1446347 Feb 28 15:13 a.out*

That 1.4MB does *not* include libperl.dylib, which is dynamically
linked.

My real app (much larger than Hello, world) comes to about 1.9MB, and
seems initially to work fine.  I have yet to test my app thoroughly or
test deploy it to other machines.

Has anyone else used this?

Barry

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