Re: question on glade/gtkperl application packaging

[Joe Smith <jes martnet com>]

Thomas Ledbetter wrote:
>   I've been messin' around with gtk perl for a while...
>
>   Has any one had much success in _easily_ packing everything up into a
> single executable?
> ...

Oh man would I like to hear an answer to this!

I have an application built with Glade.  By the time it gets installed, 
there are files in three different sub_trees_ of /usr/lib/perl5, three 
different sub_trees_ of /usr/local/lib/perl5, an application code tree 
under /usr/local, an application data tree under /usr/local and user 
configuration and data in each home directory.  It's an absolute 
nightmare to get it to build and install and run correctly.

Tracking all the dependencies (Gtk-perl, glade, glade-perl, icons, 
various CPAN modules) is another nightmare.

Has anyone thought about something like Java, where everything can be 
stuffed in an archive and 'exec'ed from there?

<Joe