Re: Auto-install (was autoloaded...)

[Michael G Schwern]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 12:31:25PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Not unless you strip the bytecode. I want to optionally package the source 
> in the bytecode, since otherwise you can't do some optimizations after the 
> fact on the generated bytecode stream.

Clever dog!


> >     2) You have to make provisions to distribute your documentation
> >        seperately.
> 
> Presumably you'd package it up in the tar or zip archive containing the 
> fully-compiled program.

Seperated documentation is no documentation.


> >     5) Do YOU have a stable bytecode compiler??  I don't.
> 
> For perl 6? No. Not yet.

Is perlcc considered really stable and usable in 5.6?  Hmm, my little
test would say no. :(


> I assumed that since you were discussing this on a perl 6 mailing list, you 
> were talking about doing this with perl 6.

What!  Me stay on topic?  HA!

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Michael G. Schwern   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>    http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
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SCSI's too wide.