Last week I posted about my current experiments in deploying perl applications to our Centos 5 servers - or rather the first steps of building a perl package along with the required modules.
I am just starting work on testing this all through, when suddenly one of the blocks to using the current stable perl (ie 5.12.2) has disappeared - TryCatch is now supported on 5.12.x
So, although I have some current tests running, I am just in the process of…
We tend to use Centos 5 on server systems.
Maintaining this has been, frankly, a bugger.
Additionally the system perl is often less than performant, and somewhat elderly.
So I am trialling a new mechanism.
This uses perlbrew to build a perl into /opt/perl - currently …
One module I discovered a few years ago, and seem to end up using for many things, is Set::Object by Sam Vilain.
Its also been consistently and carefully maintained, and Sam is a responsive maintainer.
Set::Object has been far more useful to me than I first expected, has preserved me from a ton of code mangling hashes to do…