Re: [PATCH] CI: Add a CPAN cache on Windows

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CI: Add a CPAN cache on Windows
Date: 2026-06-05 20:12:05
Message-ID: 43aqpsjgzn6ol5iwyjqbmumj523k54rw4fyfjaq57tr26x7z4k@pum4msgqacrk
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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(at)anarazel(dot)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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