Actually that is what I am doing the whole of the time.

I have installed ActiveState Perl on my laptop and then copied over the whole of the Perl directory to a server-share (which under Windows is accessible as a "drive") so it can be seen by all on our internal network. And yes we are all running Windows XP, so binary compatibility is assured.

However as the paths are different on my laptop and on the server-share, I had to use the reloc_perl.bat script which is supplied with ActiveState Perl. The only "snag" is that the new path must not be longer than the old paths or else there is not enough space in the files to replace the paths. Then you add the "new" path to the users' PATH environment variable and you're done.

After the initial relocation and copying, I now daily update the perl/site directory with rsync from my laptop and so far had no errors in running Perl from other machines. It seems there are no hard-coded paths in the files in perl/site (famous last words!).

CountZero

A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

In reply to Re: Cloning perl/site/lib directory? by CountZero
in thread Cloning perl/site/lib directory? by aplonis

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