Yes, I think this is a really important issue, but possibly this doesn't go far enough. It's not hard at all to run into situations where you need to run many versions of perl on the same box, each of which may need it's own set of modules. For example, consider a web developer's linux workstation, where you might want:

  1. the distribution's version
  2. the version on the web servers
  3. a candidate for the next web server upgrade
  4. the latest released version
  5. blead perl

A tutorial describing a few (preferably very few) ways of dealing with this administration problem would be very useful.

In reply to Re^2: RFC (tutorial): "Vendor code, Your code", PERL5LIB by doom
in thread RFC (tutorial): "Vendor code, Your code", PERL5LIB by locked_user sundialsvc4

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