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Id: 60918
Status: open
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Queue: App-perlbrew
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Requestors: apeiron [...] cpan.org
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Broken in: 0.10
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  Tue Aug 31 16:31:13 2010 apeiron [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: perlbrew switch leaves old PERL5LIB around
If a user sets PERL5LIB (probably most commonly via local::lib) and uses perlbrew switch, it's possible that the switched-to perl is incompatible with the old PERL5LIB, causing problems. This is a difficult problem to solve automatically, because perhaps the user set PERL5LIB themselves in such a way that it *will* work with the switched-to perl. I'm filing this bug as a means to start discussion of how to handle the situation. A suggestion from edenc on IRC is for l::l to set an environment variable that perlbrew looks at and uses to reset PERL5LIB when doing a perlbrew switch. I'd like input on this as I consider it myself.
  Wed Oct 20 11:03:34 2010 GUGOD [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
perlbrew do not alter PERL5LIB at all and should probably leave it alone, IMHO. Generally I'd think it'd require a new mechanism like rubygem's to deal with module/perl compatibility issue, and that is another project. local::lib paths generally are looked up before perl built-in @INC, which means, at worst case, a module in local::lib can be incompatible to as many perls as perlbrew builds. And there is no way to deal with but to either upgrade that module to a more compatible version, or to disable local::lib. Version information from local::lib can't be enough to deal with a problem that can be this crazy. Luckily, perl itself is very backward compatible so it's usually fine in many cases. It would be easier to let perlbrew acts as a full wrapper for perl execution, a command like 'perlbrew exec perl ...' can guarantee the side-effect of local::lib are eliminated by unsetting relevant env variables. On the other hand, rvm has a 'gemset' command that take cares of local gem management, which is a feature I would like to steal to provide a quicker and easer cpan module management when using perlbrew. At this moment, I'd recommend to use local::lib to create an app-specific environment for just one app. However I'm not aware of any quick and handy tool for such purpose.
  Wed Oct 20 11:03:35 2010 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'