perl2EXE catch on?

[thbp]

do you guys think perl2exe will ever catch on with programmers? so they don't need the interepter?.

[Falco Girgis]

do you guys think perl2exe will ever catch on with programmers? so they don't need the interepter?.

No.

Perl2EXE simply packages the interpreter with the script as one executable. It doesn't magically increase performance or memory usage--which is what most people care about that kind of thing for. Perl is also generally used in Unix/Linux-ish environments where the operating system comes with the perl interpreter standard, so there's no need.

The only people that really need something like that are the ones that distribute Perl scripts among Windows platforms and usually they even mandate an ActivePerl install (interpreter).

[thbp]

i was talking bout performance but about the ease of distributing perl scripts as actual programs.

[Falco Girgis]

i was talking bout performance but about the ease of distributing perl scripts as actual programs.

And I addressed that.

[thbp]

oops didn't read the bottom, But yeah that's probabobly the only solution (intell they write a compiler for it (wich will probably never happen))