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`cpanminus` should install from BackPAN automatically if you ask for an explicitly older version. `cpanfile` and Carton do a fairly decent (IME YMMV) job of loc

• peterwwillis 12y ago
  Indeed, and Pinto uses cpanminus. Carton, however, does not work well with mod_perl type systems, since you have to 'carton exec' your apps. The whole thing is still a mess, though. For example, some dists never got put into CPAN at all; they were either one-off releases or were shipped in a Linux distro or a perl core at some time or another and then re-versioned for CPAN. So when you try to find the source via cpanminus, you can't, because it literally doesn't exist. So you can either upgrade or downgrade and face whatever incompatibility that means, or use perlbrew and maintain your entire perl stack for every app you ship. Unfortunately it turns out Pinto has a slew of bugs that require you skip all errors (ick). Let's face it, versioning and releases in Perl modules is a goddamn wilderness.