Re: What am I doing wrong? A bad end-user experience

Martijn Lievaart via perl5-porters <[email protected]>
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Op 10-09-2026 om 23:41 schreef Dan:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2026 at 4:16 PM Martijn Lievaart via perl5-porters 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>     Op 10-09-2026 om 18:37 schreef gregor herrmann:
>     > On Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:15:09 +0000, Jess Robinson wrote:
>     >
>     >> FWIW my current solution is: `mv ~/perl5 ~/perl5-5.40; cpanm
>     >> --installdeps <whereever I needed deps for>` (repeat for every
>     carton
>     >> local/ as well)
>     >
>     > There's also App::MigrateModules on the CPAN which allows you to do
>     > things like
>     >
>     > perl-migrate-modules --from ~/perl5-5.40/ $(which perl)
>     >
>
>     Wouldn't that fall prey to the same problem, so would you even be
>     able
>     to run that meaningfully before the upgrade, or at all after the
>     upgrade?
>
>
> You would need to ensure it does not try to load libraries from that 
> location, hence moving it out of place, but it does not need to load 
> them to determine what modules are present. Only the "destination 
> perl" needs to be able to install the modules.
>

Ah, yes. Gotcha. Admitedly an easier solution, but doesn't address the 
terrible user experience unfortunately.


M4
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