in reply to @INC and using older modules with newer Perl versions

You probably can move/symlink the modules into the new directory without problems. You can also try setting the PERLLIB or PERL5LIB environment variables, to make perl aware of the old directory. Or, most effective, you can recompile perl to use that directory by default.
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