Re: Restricting @INC for specific application need

[sundialsvc4]

I take it that you have not yet stumbled-upon use lib ...?

Anyway, when you do, this is probably going to be what you want. I would have one directory for application-specific modules, another for CPAN-overrides, and in the main-programs of your application simply list them both in a use lib declaration.

Perl will search the libraries declared here, in order, before it walks down the @INC list... (I've got several deployed apps where I'm having to override CPAN-modules that are seriously-broken, and the owners of those modules continue to “upgrade” them without fixing the bugs. I will not name them here.)

[naikonta]

I didn't use use lib because it only prepends dir parameters to @INC, while my need is to override @INC completely by setting it manually. But yes, I should have mentioned this in the first place.