What in particular is the application or script or suite of scripts that needs these modules installed?

I'm currently supposed to be a hired gun helping out this company's sysadmin team, but they quickly noticed that I have a strong Perlish bent and decided they'd rather have me making tools to help the admins out instead of actually doing admin work. (Spend my time writing code instead of answering calls from users? Sounds good to me!)

The particular apps/scripts/suite, then, is the few bits of what I've been doing which need to be run locally on each host rather than from a central location. So not a lot there that's likely to be dependent on specific versions of either perl or any modules. I suppose there's the possibility that a module could be incompatible with a certain version of perl, but none of the versions in use here are that old - it's mostly 5.6.1 with a bit of 5.8.0 and 5.8.5 mixed in here and there.

I'd be interested to hear more about PAR, though - I've never run across it before. Can you recommend any links?

In reply to Re^2: Automating CPAN Configuration by dsheroh
in thread Automating CPAN Configuration by dsheroh

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