On Jun 29, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: > 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
We decided when 10.7 was introduced not to port perl 5.12.3 back to 10.6 or port perl 5.10.0 forward to 10.7, in part because we were changing trees and so it wouldn't really be needed for an upgrade. This decision could be reconsidered, of course, but I'm not aware of any demand for perl 5.12.3 on 10.6 or perl 5.10.0 on 10.7. The only reason I will modify files in the 10.4 tree is to keep them identical with files in the 10.7 tree for ease of maintenance. If there is already a difference between the two files, I won't bother to backport the new one. -- Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
