The only downside to running (Active)Perl from a CD, is that ppm does not seem to work. Something about paths being wrong and stuff.
Appreciate any solutions to this matter. 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 directory to a CD and run > it from any machine with a similar architecture. If you're going to be > redistributing scripts a lot, though, it might be worth looking into the > Perl Dev Kit from ActiveState. You can package your scripts into > executables and redistribute them without having to worry if the client > has Perl installed or not. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Michael D. Smith > Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 10:32 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: PERL on a CD > > > 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. > > Actually, it would be unknown if PERL were installed on the host > computer > or not -- is there any way to check first? -- as it would definitely > execute quicker off the hard drive than off a CD. > > TIA > > ms > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-Users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-Users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
