Lately I've been finding myself adding library directories which are relative to $0. For instance, if the program '.../bin/foo' needs to use pm files in '.../lib', I'll have this at the beginning of 'foo': 
use File::Basename;
use Cwd 'abs_path';
BEGIN {
  unshift(@INC, abs_path(dirname($0).'/../lib'));
};

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Question: Is there a standard module which does this? It would be nice if one could write something like: 
use rellib '../lib';

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instead of that boilerplate mess above.

If not, has a module which does this ever been considered for inclusion as a standard module?

Naturally, such a module could be made to work like 'use lib' in that it would include arch specific directories if they exist.

In reply to adding library directories relative to $0 by perl5ever

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