On 2012-5-16 11:46 , Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > On May 15, 2012, at 9:01 p.m., Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote: > >> So - my question still stands : are you interested in me doing the basic >> hard work in making ports that are hardcoded to a specific Perl5 version >> independent of which version is installed or the major one ??? > > > Wasn't this the way things were before? That is, ports were (more or less) > okay with whatever version of Perl happened to be installed. It seems that > we've moved away from that to the current system of being dependent on > specific versions. > > Why did that move happen? This was before my time on MacPorts, so I'm having > a hard time finding any relevant mailing list threads.
It never really worked. See countless tickets where someone built p5-foo for perl5.8 and then upgraded to perl5.12, then some other port that uses p5-foo failed to build. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
