Would someone please help me find PM's documentation on "how to support a network production environment while doing code changes to multiple custom packages used in common across several scripts"?
Your question isn't a Perl specific one. It's a general one. The typical production environment is separated from the production environment. And usually, there is a testing environment, completely separate from both development and production as well. The testing environment should be identical to the production environment.

The situation you describe sounds like a big mess to me. Phrases like I'm not a sysadmin suggest that people don't really cooperate in your company (either your sysadmin department isn't working to fullfil the developers needs, or you are working against policy).

Your post gives me too little detail to give a useful direct answer. My suggestion is to reorganize the environment, or abandon all hope.

Abigail

In reply to Re: Supporting a production environment by Abigail-II
in thread Supporting a production environment by jeb6kids

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