> The PDK costs money though. PAR (available free through the perl package 
> manager that comes with activestate perl) works on basically the same 
> concepts (and therefore works almost if not exactly as well), but the 
> documentation is worse and it's usability is worse (command line only, no 
> gui).
>
> I've used PAR a lot, and apart from some strange issues with finding and 
> packaging the correct DLL's for a DBD::Oracle application, it's worked 
> remarkably well. 
>   
I second that. PAR works for simple packaging, but the money spent on 
the PDK will save you a fair number of hours and headaches (more hair on 
the head). In addition, the PDK helps to package special applications 
like Windows services, system trays. Those are time-savers as well.

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