On 2007-02-24 10:50:32 -0500, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Feb 24, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >It is version 1.77. The version provided by the p5-math-bigint port > >is 1.73 only. Is there a reason to keep such a port that is not > >up-to-date and that will never be used because perl first selects > >the modules distributed with the perl5 port? > > A module can explicitly load the non-core module.
But loading an explicit version isn't standard. The installation should be set up so that the latest version is loaded with "use <module>;". > >BTW, the latest version of Math::BigInt on CPAN is 1.79. > > There probably isn't a reason to have the older one in the tree (but > there could be a reason to have the newer one available). Currently this isn't really useful since use Math::BigInt lib => 'GMP'; loads the core module, with the default @INC. If someone installs p5-math-bigint because it is more recent than the core version, he probably wants it to be loaded instead of the core version. > >Shouldn't perl5 be upgraded? > > I'm not sure what you mean, there's no perl5 port. The perl5.8 port > is for the latest stable perl release 5.8.8. Yes, I meant the perl5.8 port. Wouldn't that make version 1.79 available? (Version 1.77 isn't even on CPAN any longer.) -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
