How to Fix Perl Version Problems

Posted by Prolific Programmer Sun, 23 Dec 2007 09:47:00 GMT

You know me, I'm the Prolific Programmer. So prolific am I, that I often encounter problems with my Swiss Army knife of tools. One of my favourite tools in the knife is Perl. So, it was with great sadness when I found that it was having version problems. Apparently, Compress::Zlib had been updated to 2.008 and the author, Paul Marquees had forgotten to update the other modules. Until he does, you need only comment out the versions from the relevant use lines. For example:

use CGI 3.31; # becomes...
use CGI; # 3.31