Perl: how to share the import of a large list of modules between many independent scripts?

Question

I have many standalone scripts. The only thing they share, is that they use() a large set of CPAN modules (that each export several functions). I would like to centralize th

Answer 1

Maybe more flexible than putting everything into main namespace would be to import into caller's namespace. Something like this:

package SharedModules;

sub import {

    my $pkg = (caller())[0];
    eval <<"EOD";

package $pkg;

use List::Util;
use List::MoreUtils;

EOD

    die $@ if $@;
}

1;