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.