Module::PortablePath ==================== Module::PortablePath modifies @INC according to a configuration file (by default /etc/perlconfig.ini) The configuration file format is: [libs] something = /path/to/something/modules web = /path/to/web/modules core = /path/to/general/modules ;etc.. The purpose of this module is to provide path independence if you have code which pulls in modules that don't live in your core perl installation and that runs on multiple machines from different paths. For example - machine1:/usr/local/bin/perl5.6.1 myapp modules are installed in /data1/mywebserver/applications/myapp/lib machine2:/usr/local/bin/perl5.8.6 myapp modules are installed in /home/www/webapps/libraries/myapp You should be able to run the same myapp code unmodified on both machines without creating any symlinks if the code contains: use Module::PortablePath qw(myapp); Then the machine1 /etc/perlconfig.ini file has [libs] myapp = /data1/mywebserver/applications/myapp/lib and machine2 has: [libs] myapp = /home/www/webapps/libraries/myapp I have found this very useful in maintaining the same codebase on development and live websites migrating across different platforms with different perl versions. INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules and libraries: Config::IniFiles COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2005 by Roger M Pettett, Genome Research Ltd. http://www.sanger.ac.uk/ This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.4 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.