That's different, but I still think my point applies. The policy of not installing modules has a sane reason (we both assume), but in this case it has a cost tradeoff greater than a couple of hours. I don't see it as your job to decide how to proceed in such a case. I don't know what the right answer is for your business, but I do think it's worth bringing this up to your boss for advice.

This is one of those cases where something you didn't forsee in advance has the potential to change the scope of the work or the schedule. That happens. The best thing you can do is to identify it, be honest about the costs of all of the options, and let the person whose job it is to adjust the schedule or the scope do so.

In reply to Re^3: Shell style line-editing without benefit of CPAN modules by chromatic
in thread Shell style line-editing without benefit of CPAN modules by SirBones

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