If you are working like me (which is unlikely) distributing and deploying your Perl5 projects poses a significant challenge. Managing self-contained projects has become vastly easier since the advent of local::lib, Dist::Zilla and App::cpanminus but the ever changing (and sometimes incompatible) nature of CPAN has bitten me more than once in my life as a coder. Here is how I try to solve this, judge for yourself if this approach has any merit and encourage me to go further down this path if you think it does.