What is carton for dependency management in Perl?

Carton is a dependency manager for Perl, similar to tools like Bundler for Ruby. It allows you to manage your Perl application’s dependencies by creating a local environment, ensuring that the right versions of modules are installed and can be used without affecting the system-wide Perl installation. This is particularly useful for deploying applications or working on different projects that may require different versions of modules.

With Carton, you can lock down your dependencies in a `cpanfile`, which specifies which modules your application needs and the versions required. This helps ensure that everyone working on the project is using the same versions of these modules, thus avoiding the "it works on my machine" problem.

# To use carton, first create a cpanfile
echo 'requires "Moo";' > cpanfile

# Install the required modules
carton install

# To run your application using the installed dependencies
carton exec perl your_script.pl