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.

In reply to RE (tilly) 1: Why does the CPAN module upgrade to perl 5.6? by tilly
in thread Why does the CPAN module upgrade to perl 5.6? by ncw

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