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Also a perl 5 refugee. We use python at work, and ended up using virtual environments all over place. (Basically, python scripts can download and install a chroot with a whole python package tree in it on first run). Perl 6 supports this sort of thing instead:

use Package=1.2.3;

So you have some hope of using the system perl without dll hell.



That's actually really nice. I mean a central dependency file would still maybe be good for security updates and so on, but I wonder why multiple version support is still so uncommon among ecosystems.




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