On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 04:07:54AM -0700, David R. Morrison wrote:
>
> I have a couple of points to make.
>
> 1) There was a problem with this "build our own fink" strategy with 10.6,
> because Apple was shipping a "fat" perl whereas we wanted fink to run in
> either 32bit or 64bit mode, and the fink-built perl was not functioning well
> as a drop-in replacement. However, for 10.7 -> 10.8 this should not longer
> be an issue. Hopefully we can build 5.12.4 for 10.7 without any difficulty.
>
> 2) Another problem we had once upon a time is that Apple changed the perl
> version between early seeds and release. Jack, I gather that you are talking
> to some Apple engineers these days; if you could get them to hint at the
> plans in this regard, that would be great.
Dave,
I doubt we will see a switch to perl 5.14.2 at this point (although I did
ask for that upgrade to occcur).
Also since perl 5.12.4 is currently the latest release for the 5.12.x series,
we should be safe against any
updates there.
Jack
>
> 3) The big issue with any automated system for upgrading perl packages to a
> new pm-XXX is that most perlmod packages aren't being actively maintained,
> and while an older version of the perlmod will continue to work perfectly
> well with an older perl, often the perlmod itself needed to be updated (and
> was, upstream) to work with current perl. Thus, we need to do more than just
> add 5.12.4 to the Type; we need to test whether it builds, and possibly
> update the version to the latest upstream one.
>
> 4) A lot of the cruft in -pm.info files was generated during previous
> upgrades fairly automatically. It was pretty easy to script the addition of
> a Type and the appropriate conditional Distribution field. People on the
> core team could do this locally and then commit each file only after testing.
> I would advocate adding to the cruft rather than cleaning up the cruft, at
> least for packages that have a Maintainer, to address the
> ease-of-keeping-trees-in-sync issue. If there is no Maintainer of record,
> though, we might as well ignore 10.4 and clean up the 10.7 one.
>
> -- Dave
>
>
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