Because presumably, he’s not so terminally insane as to conduct his development on a production machine. And as soon as any sort of deployment is required, things get massively easier if you wrap your stuff up such that you can ship a package installable on a virgin machine using standard incantations. Just like pileofrogs says, I’ve found it made my life a whole lot easier, regardless of whether the code is actually ever going to live on any more than three machines.

Setting up the skeleton to allow for this before you start working on any code is so simple, there’s really no excuse not to do it. (If you haven’t developed any particular tastes and need some skeleton to grow from, things like Module::Starter::PBP will take care of you.)

Makeshifts last the longest.

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