On May 15, 2012, at 6:35 p.m., Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote: > Daniel J. Luke wrote: >> On May 15, 2012, at 6:09 PM, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote: >>> ports can be made independent of which version of Perl is installed or >>> the major one by >> >> >> In my opinion, we would be better served by just choosing one version of >> perl (which would be 5.14 right now) as our 'perl', and possibly offering >> older versions as options (although I don't think it's really necessary). > > That doesn't fix the problem with the hardcoding of p5.12 and perl5.12 > > We would still have to go through all ports and replace instances of > p5.12 -> p5.14 > perl5.12 -> perl5.14 > > And what happens when we get to Perl6 ??? or Perl 5.16 , 5.18 ...
The idea would be that we'd only have one "perl" port. All modules requiring Perl would have a dependency on that single port. vq _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
