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I prefer this way, upper has higher priority:
Mixing these options gives me desired flexibility.

The other practice, which I use sometimes, is to treat relative paths as relative to real location of the executed file (excluding mod_perl cases).

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Re^2: My preferred way of handling config data in Perl is:
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Dec 20, 2006 at 14:37 UTC
    The other practice

    No way that I am prepared to discuss my "other practice" on a public forum :-)

    Cheers,
    Rob