more robust way to handle missing modules?

[dt]

I am having trouble with some modules that are not on all of my
servers.

I use about 15 different web hosting companies to host my site. I am
having trouble with one particular module, since it either is not
located on each web host account or I can't upload it.

usually I just upload my own version and everything runs fine, but in
some cases I get an error message that says that the module conflicts
with another version of the same module. my only solution has been to
not use that web host for that piece of code, which I have to manually
disable.

is there any way to use an eval {} or something similar to try to
require a module without having the server fail with a server 500
error?

 

[Martijn Lievaart]

is there any way to use an eval {} or something similar to try to
require a module without having the server fail with a server 500 error?

I think this will do the trick.

BEGIN { unless (eval "use nonexistent") { print "not found\n"; exit; } }

HTH,
M4