The question, or possibly solution, here, seems to be 'why dont we have binary repositories for CPAN modules?' There are plenty of Windows/PPM ones, why not for various unix/linus distributions as well?

At work we also try not to overuse perl modules either. I assume the reason is to spare the customer support people (who also install stuff), from jumping through too many hoops to get things working.

Having said that, we tend to cheat anyway. Our software is installed on HP-UX and AIX machines. These are luckily standard enough that we just provide a bunch of pre-compiled modules, and it *just works*. We even provide an entire perl install complete with modules for machines where perl 5 hasnt been installed (HP-UX comes with perl 4), and that also *just works*.

So, once you get the things installed, why make your customers go through it all again? Pack up a standard lib directory and give it to them.

C.

In reply to Re: Module compilation hell by castaway
in thread Module compilation hell by Anonymous Monk

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