Monks,

A few years ago the bloke from Morgan Stanley gave a presentation at OSCON titled, IIRC, "One Perl to Rule Them All." The idea was that he had (he was the Perl/IT manager for the company) one canonical version of Perl that his company's developer's world wide used as *the* version for their development. That way, everyone was working off of the same basic code base quality checked at one point of inspection.

Well, I want to find out how to implement something like that on a drastically smaller scale. I have a small network of 7-9 machines on a very fast local network. I would like *all* production level stuff to be served from one app per machine (MySQL on computer, PostgreSql on another, ArcGIS on yet another... similarly, production level Perl/PHP/Pyhon/Ruby/Java on one including all the CPAN packages, etc.). Similarly, only one production web server that can serve both cgi scripts as well as mod_perl.

Of course, any remaining machines would be available for tinkering, so I can install the latest, bleading edge Perl module or Perl 5.1.11, and not bring the house down.

How do I go about implementing something like this? Esp., how do I create one Perl snapshot that all other applications on all other machines including the web server can take advantage of? I would like even PostgreSql's PL/Perl to be built off of this production quality Perl.

Guide me monks. Lead me to the light. I am assuming once I know the Perl way, I can probably apply it to Python/PHP etc. as well.

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when small people start casting long shadows, it is time to go to bed

In reply to One Perl to Rule Them All by punkish

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