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Guard Perl Scripts
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I too am interested in solving this problem (except I am interested in Apache/mod-perl).
Tom Morrison
Tom Morrison
have a look at perl2exe
it produces .exe files from Perl scripts that bundle all of the required modules up in a single file
has advantage that scripts are fairly unreadable
has disadvantage that each script has its own Perl interpreter embedded in there, so no performance gains from mod perl are possible
I've used it quite a bit and haven't had any problems with it.
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it produces .exe files from Perl scripts that bundle all of the required modules up in a single file
has advantage that scripts are fairly unreadable
has disadvantage that each script has its own Perl interpreter embedded in there, so no performance gains from mod perl are possible
I've used it quite a bit and haven't had any problems with it.
Mike
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sysadmins are really stealing your work, or are you just being carefully paranoid? If they actually are, I suggest moving to another system where the admins are more honest. If that's not an option, go ahead and use something like perl2exe, efficent server be damned. It's the admins' fault, let them deal with it.
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chesterguyca
Technical User
Hello,
I am a total newbie and would like to know if "perl2exe" better than activestates "perlapp"
thanks,
chester
I am a total newbie and would like to know if "perl2exe" better than activestates "perlapp"
thanks,
chester
icrf,
I think that mchance is concerned with distribution of a software work product, containing intellectual property value to mchance, on his clients' IIS servers. It is not a situation where he can dictate either the systems or sysadmins, as that would be a decision most likely left to his clients.
Tom Morrison
I think that mchance is concerned with distribution of a software work product, containing intellectual property value to mchance, on his clients' IIS servers. It is not a situation where he can dictate either the systems or sysadmins, as that would be a decision most likely left to his clients.
Tom Morrison
I would agree that perl2exe is not ideal in that it has a Perl interpreter in each script - that's definitely an overhead.
I've usually found, however, that the overhead of an interpreter for each script - as you get when you don't use mod perl or when you use p2e - is not the thing that stops scripts and applications running fast. There's usually more "mileage" in making sure that scripts are well designed and that SQL statements are efficient.
That's a bit off-topic for this thread however...
Mike
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I've usually found, however, that the overhead of an interpreter for each script - as you get when you don't use mod perl or when you use p2e - is not the thing that stops scripts and applications running fast. There's usually more "mileage" in making sure that scripts are well designed and that SQL statements are efficient.
That's a bit off-topic for this thread however...
Mike
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