I wouldn't move things around, rather I'd set things up so that perl checks your top level 'lib' for the modules. i.e. Put it into your @INC path.

Doing this in the script itself would be icky, so your best bet would probably to set your PERL5LIB (or PERLLIB) environment var to include this path.

A variant approach, which is handy if you commonly develop various modules, is to have a generic lib dir specific to you and (if you are on a Unix variant) symlink the modules you develop into there.

I use this approach with C/C++ and perl development. I have a $HOME/dev directory with include, lib and libperl subdirs.

My login then always adds $HOME/dev/include to $INCLUDE, $HOME/dev/lib to $LIB and $HOME/dev/libperl to $PERL5LIB.

If I'm working on module Foo I can just ln -s $HOME/dev/Foo/lib/* $HOME/dev/libperl to get things to work (similarly with .h/.so files for C/C++).

You need to re-run that link command whenever you add a new Foo::X (but not a Foo::X::Y).

In reply to Re^3: Directory layout recommendations for a CPAN namespace by jbert
in thread Directory layout recommendations for a CPAN namespace by GrandFather

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