Sure, I would need quite a lot of other packages too.
You are right, I can build a standalone exe or just
execute perl. But I was looking for a generic solution.
It doesn't seem logical to stick to an installer just
because it provides a bunch of dialog boxes and then
learn their crippled language or resort to
'execute external program'. Moreover, I would expect
the variables to be perl-aware too.
Something like:-
$defaults = myperlfunc_to_readfile_returning_hash(..);
do
{
$win->popupDialog($some_dialog, $defults);
}
while ($some_dialog->canceled() ||
my_validation($some_dialog->get('value1'));
I can write a custom application this way, but at
least the dialog rendering, convention on how to fetch
and get values should have been automated with
an IDE, a library or something.
The active state's TCL distribution appears to use its own
custom UI. So that is why I thought something like this might
exist somewhere.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Scott Gessner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 6:00 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Perl-aware installer
>
>
> Does perl have any run-time dependencies? Could you just extract
> perl.exe from your cab file and then run it against the file you are
> talking about? I have used the nullsoft installer and that allows you
> to run any command at any point in the install.
>
> Hope this helps...
>
> -jason scott gessner
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
> Harikrishnan Bhaskaran
> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 9:46 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Perl-aware installer
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know of any perl-aware installer? I looked at
> Perl-MSI, but
> wasn't sure if it would allow me to have perl code *at run-time* in
> between installation steps. For example, if I need to fill a dialog
> with values read from a file and I already have a perl module to parse
> the file, it would be nice if the installer had perl-builtin.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> --
> Hari Bhaskaran
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