Actually this is a bug with either CPAN or EU::MM on 5.8.1, so never mind… I've told the EU::MM maintainer (met) about it.
On Sunday, August 7, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Bugs in IO-All via RT wrote:
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> rkitover@hlagh ~/.cpan/build/IO-All-0.43-o936Na % perl Makefile.PL
> Warning: prerequisite IO::String 1.08 not found.
> Writing Makefile for IO::All
> , or } expected while parsing object/hash, at character offset 292 (before ""requires":{"perl":"...")
> at /home/rkitover/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.8.1/lib/5.8.1/CPAN/Meta/Converter.pm line 23
> at /home/rkitover/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.8.1/lib/5.8.1/ExtUtils/MM_Any.pm line 1278
> END failed--call queue aborted.
