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

On 10.09.26 13:48, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans wrote:
> This exact problem of "argh all my perl is broken" is going to happen
> to anyone doing this kind of setup, whenever system perl gets updated.
> 
> So someone, please tell me, what am I doing wrong here? I cannot
> believe that this is the intended behaviour of the system we have.
> 
> Alternatively, maybe this is as good as can currently be achieved. If
> so then I really don't like it, and I think we could do a lot better.
I believe all of these problems could be sidestepped by making sure all 
perls involved are configured with -Duseversionedarchname. See
<https://perldoc.perl.org/perl5180delta#Configuration-and-Compilation>.

Obviously that doesn't help with a distribution perl that wasn't 
compiled with this option (and I wasn't even aware this option existed 
before today). So I would propose two steps:

1. Document useversionedarchname. Probably in INSTALL.
2. Turn the option on by default.

Hopefully that will increase the likelihood that any future perl you 
encounter will Just Work(tm).