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From Andres Freund
Subject Re: [PATCH] CI: Add a CPAN cache on Windows
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In response to Re: [PATCH] CI: Add a CPAN cache on Windows  (Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>)
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On 2026-06-05 12:27:50 -0700, Jacob Champion wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2026 at 11:38 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > In 93d97349461347d952e8cebdf62f5aa84b4bd20a, I kinda had implemented such
> > caching for macos.  There I used
> >   PERL5LIB: ${HOME}/perl5/lib/perl5
> >
> > to put the cache somewhere under our control.  Any reason to not do that?
> 
> As a Perl novice, I was worried about setting that. The Windows
> runners have multiple installations of Perl and I don't want them to
> ever collide (similar to my PYTHONHOME concern in the other thread).
> Is that a reasonable fear?

I'm not particularly concerned about that, tbh. If you suddenly switch which
perl you use, you'll might get some weird errors.  Which seems fine with me.

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