in reply to Re^6: cpan & strawberry perl errors
in thread cpan & strawberry perl errors

I'm not sure what the enboldened bit of the above means? Is there some cpan trick to install an older version of something?

perl -I/path/to/older version ... if installed in custom location using INSTALL_BASE way ( local::lib way ) as demonstrated (on not win32) in Re^3: object version does not match bootstrap parameter ( cpanm --local-lib PERL5LIB)

Is there some cpan trick to install an older version of something?

There is probably through interactive interface, then there is cpan GBARR/IO-1.25.tar.gz ... thats the latest on cpan ... latest is http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/history/HEAD:/dist/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm

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Re^8: cpan & strawberry perl errors
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Dec 31, 2014 at 12:03 UTC

    According to your version dump you have IO v1.25_6.

    According to the below, I have IO-1.25, which reports itself as 1.28:

    cpan> i IO Database was generated on Wed, 31 Dec 2014 00:22:46 GMT Fetching with LWP: http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/CHECKSUMS Fetching with LWP: http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/CHECKSUMS.gz Trying with c:/perl64/bin/wget.exe -O "C:\Perl5.18\cpan\sources\authors\id\G\G +B\GBARR\CHECKSUMS.tmp10700" to get http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/CHECKSUMS --2014-12-31 11:52:45-- http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/CHE +CKSUMS Resolving www.cpan.org... 94.242.223.198 Connecting to www.cpan.org|94.242.223.198|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/plain] Saving to: `C:/Perl5.18/cpan/sources/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/CHECKSUMS.t +mp10700' [ <=> 2014-12-31 11:52:45 (1.14 MB/s) - `C:/Perl5.18/cpan/sources/authors/id +/G/GB/GBARR/CHECKSUMS.tmp10700' saved [52414] Module id = IO CPAN_USERID GBARR (Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>) CPAN_VERSION 1.25 CPAN_FILE G/GB/GBARR/IO-1.25.tar.gz UPLOAD_DATE 2009-05-14 MANPAGE IO - load various IO modules INST_FILE C:\perl5.18\perl\lib\IO.pm INST_VERSION 1.28

    There isn't a v1.25_6 on cpan!

    And according to the versions dumps, I have IO::Socket 1.36, and you have 1.34, but according to search.cpan, the latest version available is "Module Version: 1.31 Source Latest Release: IO-1.31-TRIAL".

    At this point I think I'm going to rely on wget.


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