A pretty silly question I suppose but as it's caused me a bit of grief recently, I thought I'd just check here, 'coz I couldn't find anything blindingly obvious(!) using 'super search' or in the ActiveState forums...

I have a running installation of ActiveState Perl 5.8.9 (Build 827) and would consider upgrading to the latest ActiveState Perl, being Perl 5.14.2 (build 14xx).

I went through a sample installation on a non-critical PC and have found that there is no usable version of Tk for any 5.14.x Perl version. As I read it, this would mean I can't upgrade all the way to Perl 5.14.x, given that Tk is a critical module that needs to be available for many of my Perl programs.

This led to the question: Is there a CPAN module or something that will interrogate my current installation and note the (currently ~300) CPAN modules and their versions I have installed... and then see if there are equivalent modules available (in the ActiveState repositories) for a specified Perl version? ppm list can give me a list of installed modules and their versions... but how can I check that against successful CPAN module builds for a candidate Perl version?

Thanks for any forthcoming suggestions.

In reply to How to Easily Check for Available CPAN Modules when Upgrading ActiveState Perl by ozboomer

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