On 2010-12-7 03:57 , Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Dec 6, 2010, at 11:51 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >>> Of course, we should probably deprecate perl 5.8 ... >> >> Our entire p5 ports tree is pretty much only tested with perl5.8, isn't it? > > I haven't audited every port, but I've been using 5.10 almost since we first > had a port for it with no problems. I'll be switching to 5.12 on all of my > boxes pretty soon too. > > Almost all of the p5 ports I've looked at don't have to do any special > patching and just work with whatever perl you have installed.
The plan is also to switch the default to 5.12 at some point. The basic change itself is simple, it's juts a matter of swapping which variant is default in perl5. The followup of rev bumping every module which has compiled code (or more realistically just every module), and then running damage control for the stuff which does break, is more of a pain. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
