in reply to Artificial perl version dependencies

If you're stuck with 5.6.1, my bet is that you're also pretty much stuck on some legacy OS variant for which support is discontinued. Since there are no updates / bugfixes /service packs available, you must do anything by hand anyways.

So, why not patch e.g. CPAN.pm to do a s/^(?=use +5\.008)/# / on every module before even trying to build it? If something bombs off, you know where to look.

If legacy systems / perl versions were supported, they wouldn't be legacy.

--shmem 

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

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