Success stories
From Perl Archiving Toolkit
Success Stories from users of PAR
I'm using PAR with Apache+FastCGI to achieve something very similar to Apache::PAR
- John Sequeira
Hi! I'm working on a socket-server-script and tried to build it as a standalone executable. After a few errors I finally got it to work (under WinXP Home). After that I tried to compress the exe with UPX - and still the program was fully functional (although it displayed a message that it couldnt read the file header). Finally, in my opinion - PAR is simply GREAT - please keep on developing it.
- Rico Pfaus :)
Am an AWK-user myself, but after getting some awk to perl converter, and after getting the latest ActivePerl and running a simple "> ppm install PAR" I was a very happy person with a .exe looking like a camel and working perfectly. Thanks!
- Nyph
The simple "> ppm install PAR" works very well. Don't try to install 'PAR' in the traditional manner - as it will continuously call for dependent files that it cannot find and wants you to upload from CPAN. This works very well. I am [currently] on perl 5.6.1 on Windows XP Professional SP1.
- James Burchell
The PAR tookit is invaluable in deploying the Sync Bookmarks Utility. This bookmark synchronization program is targeted towards novice end users as well, and many such users don't want to download a full Perl interpreter with its associated binaries, software libraries and developer documentation. Thanks to PAR's Perl Packager (pp) tool, the assorted Perl source files and their dependencies are organized into a single executable archive, so users can run it just like any other native executable. The PAR executable archive and a Perl shared library is all that's needed for the end user to download. I'm grateful for the efforts of Autrijus Tang and the contributors of the PAR toolkit. Keep up the good work!
- Alex Eng
We at Stunnix successfully used PAR toolkit for a tool to pack Stunnix Perl Web Server, dynamic web site driven by Perl and Perl interpreter to produce standalone executables that don't require Perl interpreter installed; once such executables are run, web server is started on free port, and site is opened in user's browser – making browser-based applications feel like native ones in all aspects.
- Vlad
