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Can PAR bundle all its prerequisites?

April 26, 2017par prerequisites

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Can PAR bundle all its prerequisites?

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Note: This entry needs serious attention. Yes and no. It would be possible to do this but it would also introduce a maintenance nightmare. A new version of PAR would have to be released whenever a new version of any of the dependencies came out. This is already painful with the included Module::Install. The original proposal which led to this FAQ entry considered the case where you want to install PAR without a working CPAN.pm/CPAN shell installation or without internet connectivity. By default, PAR will try to install its dependencies from CPAN using the CPAN.pm module. Given that you have a development machine with PAR installed and with a working CPAN.pm, it is reasonably simple to create one or more .par distributions of PAR’s dependencies. Install PAR::Dist::FromCPAN.