Creating your own repository for PowerShell modules

Apparently it's quite easy, according to Microsoft. All you need is a slightly tweaked NuGet repository.

Seeing where Perl looks for its modules on a system

Because we have very limited space on some embedded devices that we use that run Perl, we can only store a very few modules on these systems. This is a consequence of the fact that we run Busybox on these things, so by definition everything on these boxes is limited, if present at all. Therefore, we have to check and see if a module is available before we can use it in our code. Fortunately, there's a quick one-liner to see where Perl is looking for modules on a system :

perl -e'print join "\n", @INC'

I got this off a forum post from somewhere, and I'd post it here if I could find the link again. My apologies to the author of that forum post if they ever happen to run across this blog.