[cgiapp] size of scripts and dependencies

Lyle webmaster at cosmicperl.com
Sat Sep 19 22:21:57 EDT 2009


P Kishor wrote:
> Of course, this brings me back to the original intent behind this
> thread... make the persistent environment, the database, the
> templating engine, etc. a single click install...[cut]
> By the way, I agree with you wholeheartedly that the documentation
> should be *with* the code. But, perhaps, like I mentioned in an
> earlier email, we could have a "production" version of the code that
> takes out all the comments, smushes all the code in a single file and
> minifies it (aka "packs" it) a la Javascript minification... at least
> for the tried and tested modules. Actually, I see a few drawbacks in
> my own suggestion, but I put it out as a point of discussion.
>   

I have a currently shelved project that aims to accomplish much of this 
kind of thing. I call it the Perl scriptable install, one day soon I'll 
hopefully get chance to write it :/


Lyle



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