Re: Testdrive: Running applications from remote repositories without Perl

2006-08-13 Thread Reini Urban
Nicholas Clark schrieb: On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 06:59:08PM +0200, Steffen Mueller wrote: not found locally!), the repository client goes ahead and searches for that in the repository. If it's found (MSWin32 only!), it's downloaded and used. Note that Wx makes very heavy use of dlls/XS. And shor

Re: Testdrive: Running applications from remote repositories without Perl

2006-08-13 Thread Randy Kobes
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Steffen Mueller wrote: Nicholas Clark schrieb: Is the apprun.exe client performing any sort of authentication of the code? Otherwise if someone poisons the DNS, changes files on the remote machine, or in some other way substitutes the code intended to be downloaded with th

Re: Testdrive: Running applications from remote repositories without Perl

2006-08-12 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 07:24:03PM +0200, Steffen Mueller wrote: > Nicholas Clark schrieb: > >Is the apprun.exe client performing any sort of authentication of the code? > > > >Otherwise if someone poisons the DNS, changes files on the remote machine, > >or in some other way substitutes the code in

Re: Testdrive: Running applications from remote repositories without Perl

2006-08-12 Thread Steffen Mueller
Nicholas Clark schrieb: Is the apprun.exe client performing any sort of authentication of the code? Otherwise if someone poisons the DNS, changes files on the remote machine, or in some other way substitutes the code intended to be downloaded with their own, then you may not be seeing the perlpa

Re: Testdrive: Running applications from remote repositories without Perl

2006-08-12 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 06:59:08PM +0200, Steffen Mueller wrote: > not found locally!), the repository client goes ahead and searches for > that in the repository. If it's found (MSWin32 only!), it's downloaded > and used. Note that Wx makes very heavy use of dlls/XS. And shortly > after, you s

Testdrive: Running applications from remote repositories without Perl

2006-08-12 Thread Steffen Mueller
Hi list, there has been further PAR and PAR::Repository development in the last week(s). I have pushed it as far as being able to run GUI applications from remote repositories without installing any software including perl. (You know how this is made easy: PAR.) You can try this out yourself