Re: Multiple entry points (MS Windows)

[email protected] (Johan Vromans) Fri, 24 Apr 2020 19:18:38 +0200
Newsgroups perl.par
Organization Squirrel Consultancy
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Oliver,

On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:16:37 +0200, Oliver Betz wrote:

> which benefit do you expect from packing:
> 
> Avoiding "installation", reducing size, or something else?

Mostly avoiding complexity and unnecessary overhead. The cli version is
fully contained in the gui version. 

Reducing installer size. Not 'installed size' since the binary needs to be
copied under two names due to the lack of symlinks.

> How do you invoke the "plain Perl" versions?

Something similar to:

perl cli.pl
wperl gui.pl

> Without par, you could use two separate Perl wrappers.

I'm not sure I understand.

-- Johan