in reply to Why does the CPAN module upgrade to perl 5.6?

Upgrade your CPAN module.

The reason why is that CPAN checks dependencies, so if you go to install something that requires an upgrade in something else, that requires an upgrade in another thing, well CPAN will try to upgrade the whole chain. In your case something along the line requires Perl 5.6. I complained about that, and current versions of CPAN will fail rather than do that upgrade.

Given the current state of 5.6 I would start complaining to the module authors about the dependencies. And in general Perl is likely in need of a better versioning system. But that is a discussion for the Perl 6 folks.

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RE: RE (tilly) 1: Why does the CPAN module upgrade to perl 5.6?
by tye (Sage) on Aug 17, 2000 at 04:21 UTC

    I think an even more common reason is a bit of a bug in CPAN. The problem occurs when the newest version of a module on CPAN is contained in the full Perl distribution.

    Some authors of modules that are included in the Perl distribution try to make a new version after (or just before) a major release of Perl. That way CPAN will fetch the "newer" (but identical other than version number) release of the module instead of asking you if you want to install all of the standard Perl distribution in order to get one module.

            - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")
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