# from David Fleck
# on Sunday 12 April 2009 05:18:
>On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
>> If you're installing today's code from the CPAN directly on outdated
>> production machines, you're doing it wrong. ^^^^^^^^
>
>So, what *should* you install on outdated production machines? Because
>where I work, we've got a lot of them.
There are plenty of options for doing it haphazardly, including simply
installing a working cpan client.
But, if you're actively changing code on these machines, you really
should have some sort of test/staging/deployment process to avoid
surprise downtime and be able to rollback to the previous state. This
implies that you need some knowledge of how the sausage is made (or how
to hire a consultant) and you'll probably also need to upgrade to a new
ExtUtils::MakeMaker. By the time you get all of those details sorted
out, Module::Build is not a problem.
--Eric
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