I blame your sysadmin for not making it easy. Even so, you probably don't rely on CPAN all that much if you lose more time to dependency problems than you save by re-using other people's code. That's not my experience at all. I save days and sometimes weeks at a time.
If you're running through 100K lines of code to test a DBI upgrade you're clearly not testing properly. Not that most CPAN modules break compatibility. It's very rare that something like a DBI upgrade will break anything. All the good module authors are very careful.
If you're running through 100K lines of code to test a DBI upgrade you're clearly not testing properly. Not that most CPAN modules break compatibility. It's very rare that something like a DBI upgrade will break anything. All the good module authors are very careful.