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in reply to Seeking Advice re. Managing the perl / modules installs

My preference is to install a separate perl for these reasons.

Whatever you choose to do, you need a process to track what CPAN modules are deployed so that you can reproduce your environment whenever you upgrade Perl or deploy to a new machine.

You also need a process for deployment into test and production. You can't deploy an upgraded module or version of Perl whilst it is being used by the system. Personally I prefer that the sysadmins be responsible for deployment to production as we have those procedures (They involve outage windows at god awful times;)