in reply to PERLLIB vs PERL5LIB: not quite the same

IIRC, PERL5LIB was introduced around the time perl5 say the light (hence the name), and it allowed people to have both a perl4 and a perl5 installation, using PERLLIB for perl4, and PERL5LIB for perl5.

So, I guess your complaint is "CPAN doesn't work with perl4" ;-)

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^2: PERLLIB vs PERL5LIB: not quite the same
by almut (Canon) on Jan 08, 2010 at 11:21 UTC

    I think it's for that reason (i.e. being a Perl 4 thingy) that PERLLIB is tagged as obsolete in many people's heads (including mine) — for example see Motivation behind PERL5LIB and PERLLIB?.

    I'm wondering, however, has it ever been officially deprecated for Perl 5? And if so, shouldn't there be a recommendation in perlrun etc. to use PERL5LIB by default these days?

[reply]

In Section Meditations