title: Does Strawberry Perl still wipe out /site/lib and /site/bin contents?
body: <p>The question <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6101682/how-do-i-upgrade-strawberry-perl-without-wiping-perl-site-lib-and-perl-site-b">How do I upgrade strawberry perl without wiping \perl\site\lib\ and \perl\site\bin\?</a> was asked in 2011 and it appears Strawberry did throw out any CPAN installs the user did whenever we upgraded to a newer version. Is this still the case? I found <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1352267/in-strawberry-perl-what-is-the-difference-between-perl-lib-and-perl-site-lib?rq=1#comment1416548_1352281">a comment from Adam Kennedy</a> which seems related but I'm not sure whether the change was actually made and what its implications are. </p>
  
  <p>Since Strawberry Perl is said to be "100% Open Source" I tried looking for a development site, a place where we could get more details and look at discussions, but I couldn't find any, the <a href="http://strawberryperl.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">strawberryperl.com</a> site is strangely devoid of any information in this regard. Even its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry_Perl" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Wikipedia page</a> is (slightly) more informative. (Edit: I found <a href="http://code.google.com/p/strawberry-perl/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://code.google.com/p/strawberry-perl/</a> which could be a neat central portal of links, also <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kmx/Perl-Dist-Strawberry-3.012/script/perldist_strawberry" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://search.cpan.org/~kmx/Perl-Dist-Strawberry-3.012/script/perldist_strawberry</a> is quite informative.)</p>
  
  <p>Also, in case Strawberry still does this, how can I make a local backup copy of the modules? I don't want to have to use CPAN's autobundle and redownload everything from scratch unnecessarily. </p>
  
  <p><strong>Update</strong> for future reference: from the comments I gather that since the content in site/lib and site/bin are currently build-dependent in Strawberry Perl, it's necessary to wipe them out and start afresh when installing a new version. This necessity might go away if Strawberry introduces a separate arch-directory to store architecture dependent stuff. </p>