On 9/4/04 6:58 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 05:59:18PM -0400, John Siracusa wrote: >> Anyway, it'd be nice if Perl 6 supported some sort of equivalent to Mac OS >> X's application wrappers: a dir tree containing all the files needed to run >> Your Wonderful Perl Program. To execute it, either run "YourApp.pmx/run" or >> some standard path, or run "perl YourApp.pmx" and perl would know what to >> do. In both cases, there'd have to be some automatic @INC changes, etc. > > What of this doesn't PAR on Perl 5 give you today?
Well isn't that a well kept secret :) Anyway, what it'll give me is "official" support for this type of thing. In particular, the Perl 6 executable itself should know what to make of such a specially formed dir tree" how to adjust @INC automatically for me, what to run, etc.--in the same way that Perl 5 knows to look for Foo/Bar.pm in @INC when I use Foo::Bar. It's just nice to have some things built-in to avoid too much tedious bootstrapping. -John
