Aristotle

So I just went to investigate switching from perlbrew to plenv.

This has failed before, because I run an old and grungy installation of Perl where I didn’t set up a local lib and just installed whatever without keeping records of which installed modules I need and which are just junk I tried for a few minutes. Unless I carry forward all that junk, I can’t switch perls without breaking all my local scripts – and I have better things to do.

Eventually I want to fix this situation, but no today on which it comes up has been the day for it so far.

Still, I do want to upgrade to 5.22 now that it’s out, and I’ve been wanting to switch to plenv for a while. What to do?

Uhm… *looks around*
ln -s ~/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.1 .plenv/versions/5.16.1
La la la… *walks away*

Yup, plenv global 5.16.1 is fine with that and a plenv rehash later, it works.

I threw out the rest of perlbrew, just kept the directory tree for the linked perl installation, and now I happily run this bastard/cuckoo setup. Teehee.

Now for installing 5.22 and making all my stuff work with it…