Re: How should I manage CPAN when using two versions of Perl in my computer?

Should I aim to create different CPAN work directories?

No ... though you can if you want to.

I have multiple perl installations with different configurations and version numbers, and they all use ~/me/.cpan as their CPAN build directory.
It has never been an issue on Linux for me.

On Windows, it's the same situation - though I did have to make a small hack to .cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm.
Because some of the windows perls use different flavours of "make" I had to change 'make' => q[make] to 'make' => $Config{make} (which, IIRC, meant that I also had to insert use Config; into MyConfig.pm).

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^2: How should I manage CPAN when using two versions of Perl in my computer? by hda (Chaplain) on Jun 18, 2018 at 07:55 UTC
Yes, this is the behaviour I have also observed. Nice that CPAN does not need another work directory. Thanks for your response.	[reply]