IO::All bug on XP -- Do you need to predeclare spiffy_constructor?

[hackdaddy]

What causes this bug on XP? Thanks. Module looks useful, but never works.

use IO::All;

    # Some of the many ways to read a whole file into a scalar
    io('file.txt') > $contents;                 # Overloaded "arrow"
    $contents < io 'file.txt';                  # Flipped but same ope
+ration
    $io = io 'file.txt';                        # Create a new IO::All
+ object


String found where operator expected at C:/Perl/site/lib/IO/All.pm lin
+e 12, near "spiffy_constructor 'io'"
    (Do you need to predeclare spiffy_constructor?)
syntax error at C:/Perl/site/lib/IO/All.pm line 12, near "spiffy_const
+ructor 'io'"
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at C:/Perl/site/lib/I
+O/All.pm line 142.
Compilation failed in require at parse_dir_output_02.pl line 5.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at parse_dir_output_02.pl line 5.
>Exit code: 255

[PodMaster]

What causes this bug on XP? Thanks.

Probably outdated versions of the module and/or its dependencies.

Please read A Guide to Installing Modules and run the test suite before installing a module.

[jdporter]

As of ActiveState build 822, the AS repo only has version 0.17 of IO-All, not the current 0.38. This causes exactly the problem reported by the OP.

I hacked around this by installing 0.17 via ppm, then downloading 0.38 from CPAN and copying the files on top of the 0.17 files in my perl installation. Cursory testing (running the "Tiny Web Server" example) indicates that it Just Works. I also copied the three .pm files from the IO-All-LWP distribution into my site\lib\IO\All, and that too Just Works. Pure Perl++. :-)