(Win64) CPAN problems again

BrowserUk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Is there a simple explanation for the following dichotomy?

cpan> i /Win32::SocketPair/
Module id = Win32::Socketpair
    CPAN_USERID  SALVA (Salvador Fandino Garcia <salva@cpan.org>)
    CPAN_VERSION 0.01
    CPAN_FILE    S/SA/SALVA/Win32-Socketpair-0.01.tar.gz
    INST_FILE    (not installed)


cpan> install Win32::SocketPair
Warning: Cannot install Win32::SocketPair, don't know what it is.
Try the command

    i /Win32::SocketPair/

to find objects with matching identifiers.
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Re: (Win64) CPAN problems again by Corion (Patriarch) on Apr 06, 2009 at 12:42 UTC
The name appears to be `Win32::Socketpair`, not `Win32::SocketPair`. Of course, the CPAN shell could install case-insensitively if it already searches case-insensitively, but ...	[reply]
Re^2: (Win64) CPAN problems again by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Apr 06, 2009 at 12:43 UTC
D'oh! {slap head} Thanks.	[reply]
Re: (Win64) CPAN problems again by codeacrobat (Chaplain) on Apr 06, 2009 at 20:20 UTC
Hope this helps ;-) `perl -MEnv -MString::Approx=amatch -MStorable -e 'print amatch(pop, ke +ys %{ retrieve("$HOME/.cpan/Metadata")->{"CPAN::Module"} })' Win32::S +ocketPair Win32::Socketpair` [download] `print+qq(\L@{[ref\&@]}@{['@'x7^'!#2/"!4']});`	[reply] [d/l] [select]