I think the system's perl belongs to the system and you should not be doing stuff like installing non packaged perl modules and running your production application with it.

I disagree. If an OS depends on a certain version/build of perl (or python, or whatever), then they shouldn't put it in /usr/bin/perl.

Solaris got this one right (assuming they haven't changed their policy, it's been a while since I last used Solaris). They too have quite a number of scripts that may break if you replace the default perl. So they put perl somewhere else (say /some/path/to/perl) and start their programs that use perl with #!/some/path/to/perl. /usr/bin/perl is then a link to /some/path/to/perl. Now, if you want to put your own perl in /usr/bin/perl, you can do it. The systems scripts will not refer to it, and they'll keep using the default perl that came with the system.

In reply to Re: blaming perl for not using a build policy by JavaFan
in thread blaming perl for not using a build policy by trwww

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