in reply to Best approach for temporarily swapping out a single perl module for a different version?
Other monks have mentioned a few solutions, but a big question is "how temporary?"
You could put the special version of the module in its own directory and use the -Idir option when you want to use that version. Then perl will look in that directory before the regular @INC, find the special version first, and load it.
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