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Re: Managing Perl installations - summary

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From:
Ovid
Date:
March 14, 2023 08:20
Subject:
Re: Managing Perl installations - summary
Message ID:
CA+M4CHvGfJzSi4Dq=35LWtZ-WKwO--KvKroGdUV2Md7WfSuLOQ@mail.gmail.com
On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 6:35 PM demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:

> As a developer, I would also be a customer (the default customer) and
>> might like to have that "shared Perl" just for me. I don't want to
>> recompile Perl just because I want to create a new module for the CPAN.
>>
>
> I definitely appreciate that this would be nice to have. But I do classify
> it as "nice to have", eg, if our objective is to make it easy to have
> completely independent perls, then its a bit awkward if you add "except
> where it is inconvenient". :-)
>
> I think we need to support both style for historical reasons, but lets
> focus on doing independent installs first, then think about how we can
> share perl binaries between independent projects where it is helpful.
>

Quite happy with that. Packing too much into the first version would be a
mistake. I just mention ideas like this so we don't paint ourselves into a
corner.

What are the next steps?

Best,
Ovid

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