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 …