SPUG: How do *you* install multiple versions of Perl?

Colin Meyer cmeyer at helvella.org
Thu Apr 22 09:56:12 PDT 2010


On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 07:43:22PM -0700, Joshua ben Jore wrote:
> 
> DO:
>     /usr/local/perl-5.12.0
>     /opt/perl-5.12.0
> 

I like to maintain a separate Perl installation for each application, so
I name my install directories like so:

  /opt/nilcbot/perl

That way, if my nilcbot app relies on some particular versions of some
CPAN modules, those too are segregated from any other Perl installation.

-Colin.


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