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Id: 8646
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Queue: PAR-Packer
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  Mon Nov 29 07:40:37 2004 Guest - Ticket created
Subject: Loading faster or show a starting splash screen
The only disadvantage between PAR and perl2exe is the speed of the first execution. Is there a chance to get a starting splash screen with a progress bar or someone else that is shown bevor the uncompress process starts? Or can the mouse arrow switch to the sandwatch till the window opens? Thanks.
  Mon Jan 08 15:10:07 2007 jettero [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Mon Nov 29 07:40:37 2004, guest wrote: Show quoted text
> first execution. Is there a chance to get a starting splash screen
On some of our slower servers, new versions of the exes I circulate take quite a while to unpack. I was just daydreaming about some kind of progressbar or even just a spinner of some kind. I see this was from a year ago, but was there ever any traction on this?
  Mon Jan 08 15:10:08 2007 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Mon Jan 08 16:39:41 2007 smueller [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Mon Jan 08 15:10:07 2007, JETTERO wrote: Show quoted text
> On Mon Nov 29 07:40:37 2004, guest wrote:
> > first execution. Is there a chance to get a starting splash screen
> > On some of our slower servers, new versions of the exes I circulate take > quite a while to unpack. I was just daydreaming about some kind of > progressbar or even just a spinner of some kind.
I understand that, but since this has to be done in the C part of the code, it's unlikely to happen. I'm not much of a C hacker. Show quoted text
> I see this was from a year ago, but was there ever any traction on this?
None at all. I have been waay to busy fixing bugs. It's unlikely I'll ever implement this. That doesn't mean it's a bad idea! If somebody comes along and implements this, I'd be the first to accept a patch. I'm sorry. Steffen
  Fri Jul 13 09:38:13 2007 smueller [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Mon Jan 08 15:10:07 2007, JETTERO wrote: Show quoted text
> On Mon Nov 29 07:40:37 2004, guest wrote:
> > first execution. Is there a chance to get a starting splash screen
> > On some of our slower servers, new versions of the exes I circulate take > quite a while to unpack. I was just daydreaming about some kind of > progressbar or even just a spinner of some kind. > > I see this was from a year ago, but was there ever any traction on this?
Well, very recently, I implemented an experimental new unzip-module which should speed up initial extraction *a lot*. It's not on CPAN yet, but you can try it by checking out the development branch from Subversion: svn checkout http://svn.openfoundry.org/par # wait... cd par/Archive-Unzip-Burst perl Makefile.PL && make && make test && make install cd ../trunk perl Makefile.PL && make && make test && make install cd ../PAR-Packer/trunk perl Makefile.PL && make && make test && make install Then try using pp to package something big and it should default to using the new, freshly installed Archive::Unzip::Burst to extract the pp-created binary executable. Please note that this method is still extremely new and experimental. It has only been tested on linux so far. Test reports and/or fixes on other platforms are greatly appreciated! Best regards, Steffen
  Sun Jul 15 09:29:43 2007 smueller [...] cpan.org - Queue changed from PAR to PAR-Packer