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Excellent answer.

> If you're doing anything serious with Perl you DO NOT want to use the OS' perl as that way lies much pain

Strongly agree! Update: see also Re: Replicate Perl setup (Building and Installing Perl References)

Unfortunately in Re^4: Rediscovering Hubris (in January) the OP stated:

I also failed to communicate something that impacts what you wrote. I work on system tools that rely on the customer's OS version of Perl. We don't embed Perl into the tool, and the customer base tends to use older OS versions.

In reply to Re^2: Prefer Pure Perl Core Modules by eyepopslikeamosquito
in thread Prefer Pure Perl Core Modules by Leitz

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