On 28 Sep 2018, at 20:40, Warren Young <warren@etr-usa.com> wrote:

Perhaps as a last resort. We can’t even use CPAN at this site, due to firewall restrictions, so upgrades of Dancer and such have had to happen via Carton.

I suppose perlbrew is just one more step down that same path…

https://metacpan.org/pod/Dancer2

'Dancer2 can optionally use XS modules for speed, but at its core remains fatpackable (packable by App::FatPacker) so you could easily deploy Dancer2 applications on hosts that do not support custom CPAN modules.’