On 6/29/2012 1:13 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
>
> On Jun 29, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Jack Howarth wrote:
>
>>> Dear Fink developers,
>>>
>>> At the time of the upgrade to 10.7, many fink -pm5123 packages were limited 
>>> to Distribution: 10.7 only.
>>> Since we will make perl 5.1.23 available in 10.8, that restriction is no 
>>> longer necessary or appropriate.
>>> On behalf of the fink-core team, I plan to alter such packages to expand 
>>> the restriction to include 10.8.  If
>>> the versions of the corresponding .info file in the 10.4 and 10.7 trees are 
>>> identical, I will make the
>>> change in both places.
>>>
>>> Package maintainers will be notified after I have done this, which will 
>>> happen over the next few days.
>>>
>>> -- Dave
>>
>> Dave,
>>    Don't you mean to say that -pm5124 support needs to be added for 10.8? Or 
>> are you saying
>> we won't be using the system perl and will use a fink provided 5.12.3 on 
>> 10.8 instead?
>>                 Jack
>>
>
> 10.8 will have two perls available: the system perl, and a fink-proivded perl 
> 5.12.3.  The fink-provided one will be particularly useful for people 
> upgrading from 10.7, who may have various -pm5123 packages installed already.

To clarify, this will be like with 10.6, right?  pm5100 packages use 
/usr/bin/perl5.10.0, and pm588 use /sw/bin/perl5.8.8.

So goind forward, pm5123 on 10.8 will use /sw/bin/perl5.12(.3?) and 
pm5124 will use /usr/bin/perl5.12(.4?).

Since there's no official upgrade path from 10.6 to 10.7 (though 
10.6/x86_64 sometimes works), is it worth sending pm5123 back to 10.6 
and adding it as a variant to all the applicable perlmods?  Or are the 
modifications to files in the 10.4 tree only occurring so that identical 
.info files are kept in identical (even if pm5123/pm5124 won't ever 
exist there)?

Hanspeter

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