Most software these days has a fairly large number of dependencies, which is part of the reason software bill of materials requirements are becoming a thing. Certainly managing that is a consideration. On the other hand.... Popular CPAN modules provide a lot of benefits including:

My advice instead is to read through code of many of the dependencies you want to use and then decide if you might want have to maintain that code. The bar is far lower in test cases (where I usually use File::Slurp) than in production (where I don't).

Reading through the code gives some sense though of why not to use File::Slurp.....And I do pity the guy who took over maintaining it. And I say this as someone who has taken over CPAN modules in the past over maintenance needs....

In reply to Re^4: Does Perl have a baked-in memory llimit? by einhverfr
in thread Does Perl have a baked-in memory llimit? by cormanaz

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