Re: PAR::Lipo?

creation of OS X universal binary from pp? Chris did you finish your par_lipo application? Thanks, Best regards, Charles Chris Dolan wrote: On Jun 19, 2006, at 5:52 AM, Roderich Schupp (ext) wrote: Is there documentation somewhere of what comprises the non-ZIP portion of a PAR standalone executable

Re: PAR presentation to Madmongers

On Dec 20, 2007, at 8:46 PM, Chris Dolan wrote: I presented a talk to the Madison Perl Mongers that covered PAR, among other topics: http://www.chrisdolan.net/madmongers/par-fuse-pdf.html Chris And I'll be doing a re-run of this talk at the upcoming YAPC::NA 2008.

-X option broken, now fixed

Am I the only person who makes heavy use of the -X flag? I rely on it to remove platform-specific XS modules because I build on Mac and deploy on Linux, and want just the pure-perl dependencies (I install the XS dependencies on the Linux boxes by hand). I recently upgraded PAR::Packer and

ohloh listing

I just added a listing for PAR on Ohloh: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/9264?p=PAR Chris

Re: Extract to CRC-named file or original-named file

tomatically backward compatible. Unfortunately, I don't have time to implement in the near future (baby due any day), but I'm very interested in this. Chris -- Chris Dolan, Software Developer, Clotho Advanced Media Inc. 608-294-7900, fax 294-7025, 1435 E Main St, Madison WI 5

Extract to CRC-named file or original-named file

1}; Then that version could call _extract_inc. Might that be feasible? If so, I'd be willing to try a first cut at implementation. Chris -- Chris Dolan, Software Developer, Clotho Advanced Media Inc. 608-294-7900, fax 294-7025, 1435 E Main St, Madison WI 53703 vCard: http://www.chrisd

Re: linked library (libdb) not found, using system lib not packed one

used the system library, or I have known that my library will be the only copy. Chris -- Chris Dolan, Software Developer, Clotho Advanced Media Inc. 608-294-7900, fax 294-7025, 1435 E Main St, Madison WI 53703 vCard: http://www.chrisdolan.net/ChrisDolan.vcf Clotho Advanced Media, Inc. -

Re: linked library (libdb) not found, using system lib not packed one

ked .so files. I had written an FAQ entry about it at the URL below. It's no longer in the FAQs so I assume that it has been fixed in recent versions. http://search.cpan.org/~smueller/PAR-0.94/lib/PAR/ FAQ.pod#My_PAR_executable_needs_some_dynamic_libraries Chris -- Chris Dolan, S

Re: RFC: Splitting PAR

erseding .ppm as the standard mechanism for distributing pre-built packages to end users lacking compilers. Chris -- Chris Dolan, Software Developer, Clotho Advanced Media Inc. 608-294-7900, fax 294-7025, 1435 E Main St, Madison WI 53703 vCard: http://www.chrisdolan.net/ChrisDolan.vcf Clotho

Re: Repository organization: Any SVN/SVK experts?

reed. SVN's "cp" and "mv" commands makes it really easy to reorganize. May CVS rest in peace! Chris -- Chris Dolan, Software Developer, Clotho Advanced Media Inc. 608-294-7900, fax 294-7025, 1435 E Main St, Madison WI 53703 vCard: http://www.chrisdolan.net/ChrisDolan.v

Re: 0.959 + AS 817 + Visual Studio 2003 success

writing that message. Chris -- Chris Dolan, Software Developer, Clotho Advanced Media Inc. 608-294-7900, fax 294-7025, 1435 E Main St, Madison WI 53703 vCard: http://www.chrisdolan.net/ChrisDolan.vcf Clotho Advanced Media, Inc. - Creators of MediaLandscape Software (http://www.media-landscape.c

0.959 + AS 817 + Visual Studio 2003 success

atter everything went very smoothly. Chris -- Chris Dolan, Software Developer, Clotho Advanced Media Inc. 608-294-7900, fax 294-7025, 1435 E Main St, Madison WI 53703 vCard: http://www.chrisdolan.net/ChrisDolan.vcf Clotho Advanced Media, Inc. - Creators of MediaLandscape Software (http://www.

My YAPC::NA talk about PAR

with colleagues. http://www.media-landscape.com/yapc/2006-06-27.ChrisDolan/ Enjoy! Chris -- Chris Dolan, Software Developer, Clotho Advanced Media Inc. 608-294-7900, fax 294-7025, 1435 E Main St, Madison WI 53703 vCard: http://www.chrisdolan.net/ChrisDolan.vcf Clotho Advanced Media, Inc. - Creators of

Re: bugs somewhere, not sure where: Perl? PAR? Image::Info::JPEG? All 3?

other helper modules. I can't seem to trace the code well enough right now to figure it out, but I'm guessing IO::Scalar or something like that is needed. Can you try adding that one via -M? But please note that I'm just guessing here... Chris -- Chris Dolan, Softwa

Re: Old, bundled cruft in PAR builds

e the bootstrapper would be smaller and more of the Perl content would be inside the .zip container. Chris -- Chris Dolan, Software Developer, Clotho Advanced Media Inc. 608-294-7900, fax 294-7025, 1435 E Main St, Madison WI 53703 vCard: http://www.chrisdolan.net/ChrisDolan.vcf Clotho Advanced

Shrinking PAR files (was Re: PAR::Filter::Squish)

quot;)' Another smaller example is SOAP::Transport::* where most installations only need SOAP::Transport::HTTP. Chris -- Chris Dolan, Software Developer, Clotho Advanced Media Inc. 608-294-7900, fax 294-7025, 1435 E Main St, Madison WI 53703 vCard: http://www.chrisdolan.net/ChrisDolan.vcf Cl

Re: PAR 0.942 released

nks for reading, Steffen I just committed a POD fix (missing =back) for Module-ScanDeps/script/ scandeps.pl which caused regression test failures. I didn't look to see if this affected the CPAN released version. Chris -- Chris Dolan, Software Developer, Clotho Advanced Media Inc. 608-29

PAR hash computation bug fix

programs on my Mac when running one PAR program after another one without wiping /tmp/par-* in between. This bug does not affect people who only run one PAR executable. Chris -- Chris Dolan, Software Developer, Clotho Advanced Media Inc. 608-294-7900, fax 294-7025, 1435 E Main St, Madison WI 53703

Re: PAR::Lipo?

! Thanks, Roderich. I did not see that section before. Chris -- Chris Dolan, Software Developer, Clotho Advanced Media Inc. 608-294-7900, fax 294-7025, 1435 E Main St, Madison WI 53703 vCard: http://www.chrisdolan.net/ChrisDolan.vcf Clotho Advanced Media, Inc. - Creators of MediaLandscape

Re: PAR::Lipo?

On Jun 8, 2006, at 11:15 PM, Chris Dolan wrote: [snip] I propose a "par_lipo" command that works analogously to Apple's "lipo". par_lipo accepts two PAR executables, one compiled for PPC and one for x86, and merges them into a single larger PAR executable. Th

Re: PAR::Lipo?

On Jun 9, 2006, at 12:43 AM, Glenn Linderman wrote: On approximately 6/8/2006 9:15 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Chris Dolan: * Why not use PAR's existing multi-arch infrastructure? Not allowed for standalone executables. But isn't that just b

PAR::Lipo?

ipts? This is a possibility, but would still need some of the "lipo" work detailed above, just not on the executable header. * Why not use a thin wrapper that decides which PAR to use and exec ()s that one? Inelegant and larger file size. I prefer a monolithic file so users can&#x

Re: Exclude core modules from executable?

shrink my multiple 5 MB executables by using the system distro as much as possible. What about "pp -P ..." (generate standalone Perl script)? Cheers, Roderich Very interesting. I had not correctly understood that option until I tried it just now. Thanks for the pointer. C

Exclude core modules from executable?

tem distro as much as possible. I'm contemplating subclassing PAR::Packer to accomplish this, but that seems so heavy-handed... Chris -- Chris Dolan, Software Developer, Clotho Advanced Media Inc. 608-294-7900, fax 294-7025, 1435 E Main St, Madison WI 53703 vCard: http://www.chrisdolan.net

Re: Reading pp options from a file

ation wouldn't play well with quoted options. I'm in favour of using the module even if it's just so that we can point fingers if problems arise. Yes, I should have added a smiley -- I'm in favor of the module too. My code was just for fun. Chris -- Chris Dolan, Software D

Re: Reading pp options from a file

eature. PAR has so many dependencies that I'm sure few would complain about one more. :-) Nevertheless, here's a simplistic implementation to pre-process the @ARGV list: @ARGV = map {my $fh; /\A\@(.*)/ ? open($fh, "<", $1) ? map {split} <$fh>

PAR executables and Universal binaries on Mac

ay have to solve this problem quickly, so any ideas/insights/experience would be very welcome. Thanks, Chris -- Chris Dolan, Software Developer, Clotho Advanced Media Inc. 608-294-7900, fax 294-7025, 1435 E Main St, Madison WI 53703 vCard: http://www.chrisdolan.net/ChrisDolan.vcf Clotho Adva

Module::Pluggable

I just committed a fix for Module::Pluggable support in Module::ScanDeps. This is my first code commit to the PAR svn, so I'd appreciate it if someone could look over my change and critique it. Thanks. Chris -- Chris Dolan, Software Developer, http://www.chrisdolan.net/ Public key:

chdir and relative paths in @INC

if (! ref $_ && -d $_ && !File::Spec- >file_name_is_absolute($_)) { $_ = File::Spec->rel2abs($_); } } # Move to root so filesystems can unmount if needed chdir File::Spec->rootdir(); Chris -- Chris Dolan, Softwa

Re: creating multiple par executables from similar codebase

On Mar 6, 2006, at 9:48 AM, IvorW wrote: -Original Message- From: Chris Dolan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 March 2006 15:48 To: par@perl.org Subject: creating multiple par executables from similar codebase I have a build process that creates nine PAR executables at the end, all

creating multiple par executables from similar codebase

because clients will receive only a subset of the nine permutations. Thanks, Chris -- Chris Dolan, Software Developer, http://www.chrisdolan.net/ Public key: http://www.chrisdolan.net/public.key vCard: http://www.chrisdolan.net/ChrisDolan.vcf