From: Autrijus Tang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:35:18PM +0100, Paul Marquess wrote:
> > You'll have to forgive me, but I don't know what PAR is.
>
> Oh. See http://par.perl.org/. It does what JAR does for Java, and
> does what PerlApp/Perl2Exe did for perl, and is also an alternative
> to PPM.
>
> > That said, it might be easier if I just bundled zlib with
> Compress::Zlib and
> > made it default to building its own personal copy of zlib - rather that
> > defaulting to using a pre-installed version of zlib as it does at the
> > moment. Bundling zlib with Compress::Zlib has been on my list
> for a while
> > now.
>
> That will be most excellent, as I can simply depend on a future version of
> Compress::Zlib and be sure that it will be statically linked.
The final dependency is, of course, a C compiler. Not all systems have one
available.
> I'm aware that Jos Boumans has started doing something like that, and
> has produced a proof-of-concept release:
>
> http://wagner.elixus.org/~autrijus/Alien-Zlib-0.01.tar.gz
>
> It may or may not help. :-)
Looks like a different approach to the one I've used, but as they say --
TMTOWTDI.
Paul
