This old wiki page is sadly lost. We still have lots of features. Also, this is a stub asking for replacement.

Here is a transcript of the old page from www.archive.org It is in need of updating being over two years old.

Contents 1 Features 1.1 pp - Perl Packager 1.2 par.pl - Make and run Perl Archives 1.3 parl - Binary PAR Loader 1.4 tkpp - Graphical Perl Packager

Features Edit

The PAR Toolkit comes with several modules and utilities, which work together to make cross-platform packaging and deployment a breeze.

pp - Perl Packager Edit

• Turn your Perl programs into ready-to-run executables
• Pack scripts and required libraries with a binary loader that runs the script
• Build dependent applications, which require an existing Perl installation on the target computer
• Build freestanding applications, which will run on a target computer that does not have Perl installed
• Optionally obfuscate your programs using InputFilters
• Tested on Windows, *BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Cygwin, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, OS/2...
• Put PAR files into @INC to avoid version conflicts
• Works with remote URL as well as local files
• Supports XS modules and DATA sections

pp or APP::PAR - Does NOT work for Active State Perl Distributions

par.pl - Make and run Perl Archives Edit

• Turns CPAN module distributions into PAR distributions
• Install, uninstall, signs and verifies PAR distributions
• Runs scripts inside PAR files, generated by "pp -p"

parl - Binary PAR Loader Edit

• Freestanding version of par.pl, with a built-in Perl interpreter!
• Ideal for deployment on machines without an existing Perl installation
• Runs PAR files as well as Perl programs

tkpp - Graphical Perl Packager Edit

• Uses Tk.pm to present an user-friendly GUI
• Supports most of pp's options
• Runs on multiple platforms

The flesh was willing but the grass was wet.

--tsee 09:52, 4 May 2006 (UTC)