On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Eric Wilhelm <enoba...@gmail.com> wrote: > # from Jonathan Rockway > # on Thursday 09 April 2009 13:30: > >>* On Thu, Apr 09 2009, Bill Ward wrote: >>> How about you write a "how to manage Perl on your system" doc and >>> get it into the core as a new perlxyz perldoc file then. >> >>That is a very good idea. >> >>Of course, the people that will update to a version of perl that >>includes this doc probably won't need it ;) > > If everyone can get past the idea that something non-core is somehow > unusable, a fine document already exists > > http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?perl_best_admin_practices
It may be a best practice to maintain your own perl but having just done this at work, it's a massive time sink. Our new platform at work is an Ubuntu mod_perl system with 208 CPAN modules. We produced a .deb for perl+modules and another for mod_perl but it took us several weeks to do it and we had to learn a bunch about how to author for Debian. It was painful and I don't recommend it for most people. Some of the stuff that made it most annoying were CPAN modules that had prompts or interacted with things outside the installation fake root. Josh
