ml> probably the worst thing is that i doubt that i can do 
 ml> much about coming up to a newer version, not the 
 ml> latest, but just newer, without royally messing 
 ml> something else up... i upgraded my perl and lost the 
 ml> working apache install... oh well... maybe it'll be for 
 ml> the best to just wait for you to "have that baby" ;)

 ML> I got two words: "Static Binaries", for Linux, Windows & DOS. 

true... that could be done but then you've bypassed the whole idea of
shared code libraries (dll, so, and such)... and you end up back in
bloat-city cause now you've got code that does the same thing stored all
over the place in different executables...

 ML> Probably too much to ask :)

no, not really... guess it depends on how far back to DOS methods you want to go :)

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