Description:

Perl Archive Toolkit:
- Do what JAR (Java Archive) does for Perl
- Platform-independent, compressed file format (zip)
- Aggregates modules, scripts and other files into one file
- Easy to generate, update and extract
Benefits of using PAR:
- Reduced download and deployment time
- Saves disk space by compression and selective packaging
- Version consistency: solves forward-compatibility problems
- Community support: par@perl.org
You can also turn a PAR file into a self-contained script
- Bundles all necessary 3rd-party modules with it
- Requires only core Perl to run on the target machine
- If you use pp to compile the script...
- ...you get an executable not even needing core Perl