Re: Up-to-date Alternatives to Tiny Perl? (Was: PERL on a CD)

2006-07-25 Thread Veli-Pekka Tätilä
Hi List, As I seemdd to mis the root note on this thread, hope I'm quoting the right person here. Michael D. Smith wrote: > Is it possible to burn PERL and a script onto a CD and execute it from > there without installing perl on the host computer? The first thing I'd try for simple scripts woul

RE: ANNOUNCE: Beta of PPM version 4 released

2006-07-25 Thread Jan Dubois
We have now released Beta 2 of ActivePerl 818 (build 817.91). http://www.activestate.com/Products/Download/Download.plex?id=ActivePerl &type=beta The new feature of Beta 2 is the PPM GUI, which is invoked if you run `ppm` without any commandline arguments. On Windows you can also invoke it fro

Re: PERL on a CD

2006-07-25 Thread Mark Gardner
"Michael D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote at Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:31:37 -0500: > Is it possible to burn PERL and a script onto a CD and execute it from > there without installing perl on the host computer? > > There would be nothing in the registry. The path to perl.exe would > have to be inc

RE: PERL on a CD

2006-07-25 Thread Timothy Johnson
It's just expanding $ENV{TEMP} to get that directory, so you should still be able to write the temporary files to the cache. There should be no registry entries or DLL registries required, but I don't have a lot of experience with PAR. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[

RE: PERL on a CD

2006-07-25 Thread Michael D. Smith
I installed PAR using ppm. It seemed to work. It created an executable file that ran. It seems that what it's doing is putting (installing?) Perl, or at least a big piece of it, in a "temp" file. Specifically: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp\par-Administrator\cache-

RE: PERL on a CD

2006-07-25 Thread Jan Dubois
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Timothy Johnson wrote: > The only disadvantage to running Perl from a CD is that the file > associations would not be there, so you would have to prepend perl.exe > to your command-line to launch your script. > > perl myscript.pl > > Other than that, you can just copy your perl

Re: PERL on a CD

2006-07-25 Thread D D Allen
The other option is to "compile" / package the Perl script into a stand alone executable -- which could then be readily run from a CD -- without having to address getting all of the Perl environment and path variables right. There are two solutions for "compiling" / packaging Perl scripts:  (1) A

RE: PERL on a CD

2006-07-25 Thread Timothy Johnson
The only disadvantage to running Perl from a CD is that the file associations would not be there, so you would have to prepend perl.exe to your command-line to launch your script. perl myscript.pl Other than that, you can just copy your perl directory to a CD and run it from any machine with a si

Re: PERL on a CD

2006-07-25 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi, Search with Google for "microweb". You will find that perl, php, MySQL and Apache can run from a CD, with no installation needed. Teddy - Original Message - From: "Michael D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 8:31 PM Subject: Re: PERL on a CD > > Is it p

Re: PERL on a CD

2006-07-25 Thread Michael D. Smith
Is it possible to burn PERL and a script onto a CD and execute it from there without installing perl on the host computer? There would be nothing in the registry. The path to perl.exe would have to be included for the script to execute -- but beyond that, I'm a blank. Any thoughts appreciated.