If you can't NFS (or AFS) mount from a centralized server then you could possibly negotiate a standard where you do two things:

  1. Establish a standard where you have a place where all third party software goes. In my shop we use the standard point of /usr/local/software and further every version of the software we are "keeping" gets installed in a subdirectory named after its version for instance /usr/local/software/perl-5.8.0
  2. With that in mind you then put in symoblic links as needed to that standard places. Such as /usr/bin/perl would be a symbolic link to /usr/local/sofware/perl-5.8.0/bin/perl.
The beauty of having the subdirectories with mutltiple versions is that if you have a developer who's Perl script needs a different version than what you have in "production" they can just change the shebang line as needed. In a previous shop we actually had cases where scripts used in production would only run under older versions of Perl and blew up under the latest and greatest.

From what you have described doing what I propose won't be easy, but often good things aren't easy to do.

Once you have established this standard then building new modules and installing them will go much smoother.

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In reply to Re: Distributed Perl Modules by blue_cowdawg
in thread Distributed Perl Modules by gnu@perl

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