Perl script + tgz = installer

[dima]

Hello all!

I write simple installer for my project.
1) I make distr.tgz tarball with bin's and cfg's
2) I write install.pl script

But I want to implement "bin"-installer, e.g.
1)cat install.pl > install.bin
2)cat distr.tgz >> install.bin
3) ???
4)./install.bin #install all

What should I do on stage 3???

 

[Josef Moellers]

Hello all!

I write simple installer for my project.
1) I make distr.tgz tarball with bin's and cfg's
2) I write install.pl script

But I want to implement "bin"-installer, e.g.
1)cat install.pl > install.bin
2)cat distr.tgz >> install.bin
3) ???
4)./install.bin #install all

What should I do on stage 3???

You could put the stuff to install into a __DATA__ section and read it
via the DATA filehandle. Then stage3 would do nothing, but the last line
of your install.pl should read "__DATA__"

Josef

 

[John Bokma]

Hello all!

I write simple installer for my project.
1) I make distr.tgz tarball with bin's and cfg's
2) I write install.pl script

But I want to implement "bin"-installer, e.g.
1)cat install.pl > install.bin
2)cat distr.tgz >> install.bin
3) ???
4)./install.bin #install all

What should I do on stage 3???

Have a look at PAR which is similar to JAR.