>  On Mon, 01 Nov 2004, Mathieu Longtin wrote:
> > Mildly related question: when you package perl software, do you just
> > pack up the file as they are on disk, or do you let perl "compile"
> > first, and save the state of the interpreter before it starts running
> > the code?
> 
>  It is mostly just the files from disk.  Some modules get modified a little
>  to make them work inside PerlApp (e.g. when a module accesses %INC to find
>  its own location on disk), and we strip POD from some core modules where
>  it is safe to do so.
> 
>  Saving the state of the interpreter could only be done using the bytecode
>  technique.  Unfortunately bytecode files in Perl are both larger, and
>  slower to load than the corresponding source code, so there is no 
>  advantage
>  in using the bytecode.

Hi Jan,

So, I assume that PerlApp doesn't strip comments either? Would it worth 
running the Perl source code through a comment/pod stripper before sending 
it to PerlApp?

Cheers,

Jez.