in message <20150603172207.gf2...@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu>,
wrote William Bulley thusly...
>
...
> My focus now is trying to install DBD::Oracle 1.74 from CPAN (from
> April of 2014) on my system.
...
> What is confusing to me is why FreeBSD _still_ contains
> DBD::Oracle 1.19 in their "ports" tree!  After all these years!

Since it's maintainership was passed to perl@freebsd ...

  r296145 | skv | 2012-05-07 05:42:51 -1000 (Mon, 07 May 2012) | 4 lines

  Pass maintainership of almost of my "p5-*" ports to "perl@".

  (I hope updating of them will be improved).


... DBD::Oracle has not been updated. (The updates that are there are
related to Ports infrastructure & build/install.)

Somebody needs to file a PR to update the port. (Tsk, tsk [0,1].)


  - parv


  [0] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/

  [1] 
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?component=Individual%20Port%28s%29&product=Ports%20%26%20Packages

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